JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vol. XXIV October, 1923 No. 286 
GREEN DESERTS AND DEAD GARDENS 
A RECORD OF EXPLORATION IN FLORIDA IN THE SPRING OF 1921 
Floristics follow the Flag! Shall we add that this is not a 
, but a confession? Over half a century ago, while the 
“closet botany’ for the formerly re popu field work 
Whatever the causes, t ora and floristics of the Pacific side 
of the Nor merican Continent are consi by many— 
ta 
ists, apparently—they are better pleased, like their predecessors 
of yesterday, to browse among the vast floras of fields afar, than 
partake of the white man’s civilization has been the last of 
our states to have its flora thoroughly collected a studied. 
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