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fruiting, and leaf-shedding are always going on in one species 

 or other. It is never either spring, summer, or autumn, but 

 each day is a combination of all three. With the day and 

 night always of equal length, the atmospheric disturbances of 

 each day neutralising themselves before each succeeding morn ; 

 with the sun in its course proceeding midway across the sky, 

 and the daily temperature almost the same throughout the 

 year how grand in its perfect equilibrium and simplicity is 

 the march of Nature under the equator ! " 



