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This does not end the story, however, for without 

 the trees and the flowers of the Rose and the Palm 

 families we should lose our poetry as surely as our 

 food. It is a wonderful cooperation, looked at from 

 any standpoint we please. With intelligent and hu- 

 man leadership on our part, the animal and the vege- 

 table kingdoms alike become tributary to our welfare. 



