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of Europe possessed, .could scarcely be prevailed upon to 

 make a search for native American plants, far more beau- 

 tiful, which grow in the woods not ten miles from their 



FIG. 36. NATIVE FLOWERING DOGWOOD 



own doors. Some of them were wholly ignorant of such 

 plants except so far as a familiarity with their names in the 

 books may be called an acquaintance. Others knew them 



