PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE 



The exchange of seeds and plants 

 which always attends such garden visits 

 is one of the pleasant incidents connected 

 with them. My garden is a veritable 

 album, and as I wander over our place 

 I find many a dear friend or happy hour 

 commemorated in it. This little clump 

 of oxalis, naturalized so prettily in the 

 woods, was gathered one lovely day when 

 a merry party joined us in an expedition 

 to the Profile Notch. That group of 

 lady's-slippers came from the woods of a 

 dear friend in Vermont. Here are moss 

 roses from a magnificent rose garden in 

 Massachusetts, and there are seedlings 

 from the home of Longfellow, or wil- 

 lows rooted from cuttings brought from 

 the South by Frederick Law Olmsted. 

 Hardly a flower-loving friend have I 

 who has not left an autograph in plant, 

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