RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



ity, so let us spurning the selfishness 

 of the few who ignore the rights of 

 the many, find pleasure in pursuits 

 which no abuse is able to restrict nor 

 monopoly to control, for when schem- 

 ers and their usurpations are no more, 

 nature incorruptible and unalterable 

 will continue steadfast on her way. 



Now as I go about our "village," 

 developed to a full-fledged town, I re- 

 joice that we have so much for the 

 enjoyment of the many, and so little 

 that is not as free as our own desires. 

 As of old, our common highway fol- 

 lows its tortuous course, and although 

 peach and weeping willow and lom- 

 bardy poplar trees of long ago have 

 vanished, other trees of sturdier 

 mould have risen to take their place. 

 Large, substantial houses in the ripe- 

 ness of age continue with us, but 

 those who built them sleep in our 

 shaded graveyards, and we may de- 

 cipher their names on bleached and 

 weather-beaten decomposing stone. 

 Lofty trees planted by those who 

 Tiave gone before," in "the fullness of 

 time" stand as monuments to them, 

 and as friends to us to shade and pro- 

 tect. 



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