GHOSTS OF THE EARTH 



E may know the name of every tree 

 near our home ; we may recognise each 

 blossom in the field, every weed by 

 the wayside; yet we should be astonished to be told that 

 there are hundreds of plants many of them of exquisite 

 beauty which we have overlooked in very sight of our 

 doorstep. What of the green film which is drawn over 

 every moist tree-trunk or shaded wall, or of the emerald 



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