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of medizval things ; then at Nimes I introduced her 
to the old Roman world in the well-preserved amphi- 
theatre and the beautiful temple called Maison Carrée, 
ruins of temples, baths, pavements, and all that, —a 
charming place, of which I had very pleasant memo- 
ries almost thirty years old. Then, to revive old 
memories, we went on to Montpellier; had a nice day 
with Martins! and Planchon? (whose photographs, 
as well as Brongniart’s, I have for you) ; then we came 
on via Arles to Marseilles, within an hour of the rest of 
the party coming direct from Paris. They all sailed 
next day ; we waited a week, so as to get a view of this 
interesting shore, which we should not be likely ever to 
visit again. So we went first to Hyéres, where we first 
saw orange groves laden with fruit and tall date-palms, 
and eucalyptus-trees forty feet high, and all such nice 
things ; roses by the ten thousand in hedges. . . 
Toward evening on the third day, we took a carriage, 
drove through Mentone along the coast road to Mo- 
naco ; passing by the modern and gaming district, we 
went into the old fortified town to lodge ; went round 
the ramparts in the morning, saw more agaves than 
ever before, and the steep rock 300 feet high covered 
with opuntias, having stems as thick as my leg, not to 
say my body. Next morning took railroad through 
Nice to Antibes; visited M. Thuret,’ the botanist, be 
appointment; a most charming man, a Frencli Protest- 
’ Charles Frederic Martins, M. D., 1806-1889; professor of botany 
and director of the Botanic Garden at Montpellier. 
2 Jules Emile Planchon, 1823-1888 ; professor at Montpellier ; 
author of important works on Systematic Botany and Morphology. 
Studied Phylloxera. 
3 Gustave Thuret, 1810-1875. ‘One of the best investigators of 
Pek ; established a Seidl e botanical garden at Antibes” 
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