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jars. Still, they held their own until one time, four 

 or five years since, a florist fellow from back of 

 Bridgeport came out here for a load of bog moss, 

 and spied 'em. Next thing I knew they were all 

 rooted out, 'cept a couple of young ones, and they 're 

 beginning to spread again, you see." 



Another plant that, taken from its haunt, is a 

 curiosity destined to come to an untimely end in a 

 fish -globe, but at home an example of the mechan- 

 ism which the Magician can lend to plant -life, and 

 a fine study in green and bronze tints, backed, as 

 it was, by Bur Reeds and Cat -tail Flags. 



Woods again, still more completely hiding a chain 



