Leaves from a Madeira Garden 



is such a variety of climate, that there is scarcely 

 any article of the necessaries or luxuries of 

 life which could not be cultivated here." These 

 words have been almost repeated in my hearing 

 by expert botanists in recent times. But 

 Nature's bounty has been unavailing against 

 the perversity of man. 



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