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THE EVOLUTION JB 



NATIVE FRUITS 



It would be curious to speculate as to what our pomology would 

 have been if the civilization from which it. and I, have 



sprung, had had its birthplace along t he southern .r great 



•• northern of the Gulf of Mexico, and the intervening Mis 

 Instead of the Le\;i!it. Mesopotamia and the Nile. . 

 old world had 1-een open to us as a new world less than four 

 hundred years ago.— Asa Gray. 



L. H. BAILHY 



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