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with admiration on that excellent feature of vegetable 

 life its willingness to submit to the authority of man. 

 There is often a sweet and pretty make-believe of delay 

 and resistance. But seeing what has been accomplished 

 in converting the crab into the apple, there may be 

 reason to hope that here too, by-and-by, there will be 

 translation into graceful and loyal compliance, and the 

 Benthamia become as good to eat as it is charming in 

 countenance. At St. Austell the boughs seem as if they 

 would break down under the weight the tree thirty- 

 six feet in height and as much in diameter, the lower 

 branches resting on the turf. 



