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first locality remote from San Salvador visited was 
beautiful estate of Don ned Sol, Minister of Salvador to 
the United States. Here it was possible to see the process of 
the Season of the aaa hhh (often known as balsam 
of Peru, because of the early belief that it came from that 
. almost all of owe commer supply of which is obtained 
f Salvador, although the tree which 
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e town, many ne lan und. ew tree ferns 
row here, these are rare in Salvador, and tly 
approaching extinction raceae are particularly plentiful 
bore flowers. Especially remarkable in this group is the variation 
in foliage exhibited by the juvenile and adult plants, which are 
often totally unlike. The young plants are strikingly handsome, 
i day’s 
is called—which is very different from the western and central 
