A Thousand-Mile Walk 



fortable residences, contrasting sharply with 

 the squalid hovels of my first days in Florida. 

 Found a single specimen of a handsome little 

 plant, which at once, in some mysterious way, 

 brought to mind a young friend in Indiana. 

 How wonderfully our thoughts and impressions 

 are stored! There is that in the glance of a 

 flower which may at times control the greatest 

 of creation s braggart lords. 



The magnolia is much more abundant here. 

 It forms groves and almost exclusively forests 

 the edges of ponds and the banks of streams. 

 The easy, dignified simplicity of this noble tree, 

 its plain leaf endowed with superb richness of 

 color and form, its open branches festooned with 

 graceful vines and tillandsia, its showy crim 

 son fruit, and its magnificent fragrant white 

 flowers make Magnolia grandiflora the most 

 lovable of Florida trees. 



Discovered a great many beautiful poly- 

 gonums, petalostemons, and yellow leguminous 

 vines. Passed over fine sunny areas of the long- 

 leafed and Cuban pines, which were every- 

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