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illumines its surroundings, and covers its forest sup 

 porters with a crown of glory. Along the fences and 

 hedges the Cherokee rose I may tell you its legend 

 some day clambers in wild luxuriance, its fair snow- 

 white blossoms shining like stars in the dusk of the 

 evening, as you ride along. The oleander, the Cape jes 

 samine and the crepe-myrtle, puny shrubs and hot-house 

 plants at the North, here are trees, that grow to the 

 height of twenty feet. The camellia, too, reaches the 

 height of ten feet or more, and living in the open air, 

 blossoms with a luxuriance unknown to its sisters of the 

 northern conservatory. 



But why say more. The lover of the rod and gun 

 keenly appreciates all of nature s loveliness and where 

 is the beauty and delicacy of God s handiwork more 

 manifest than in the &quot; Land of Flowers &quot; ? 



AUG. K. EGBERT. 



