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fortable residences, contrasting sharply with 
the squalid hovels of my first days in Florida. 
Found a single specimen of a handsome little 
plant, which at once, in some mysterious way, 
brought to mind a young friend in Indiana. 
How wonderfully our thoughts and impressions 
are stored! There is that in the glance of a 
flower which may at times control the greatest 
of creation’s braggart lords. 
The magnolia is much more abundant here. 
It forms groves and almost exclusively forests 
the edges of ponds and the banks of streams. 
The easy, dignified simplicity of this noble tree, 
its plain leaf endowed with superb richness of 
color and form, its open branches festooned with 
graceful vines and tillandsia, its showy crim- 
son fruit, and its magnificent fragrant white 
flowers make Magnolia grandiflora the most 
lovable of Florida trees. 
Discovered a great many beautiful poly- 
gonums, petalostemons, and yellow leguminous 
vines. Passed over fine sunny areas of the long- 
leafed and Cuban pines, which were every- 
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