m JUDIC5E 



"Mr. Walter Deane informs me that in his youth he was familiar with 

 Old Orchard Beach, and that at that time this Artemisia ( A. Stelleriana) 

 was not seen, Pernald, Rhodora 11.39. 



In the youth of Walter Deane, in those glorious ancient days, 

 Foreign plants had not crept in with insinuating ways. 

 Every plant was then our own from each rootlet tip so small 

 And the old world floral tramps did not cut a dash at all;- 



All our plants were indigene 



In the youth of Walter Deane. 



In the youth of Walter Deane, gardens were not hard to weed; 



qur plants were too polite to proraiseously seed, 



And profanity produce. Foreign weeds grew only then 



In ash barrels far remote,- rarities were they to men. 



Shepherd ' 3-purse grew not, I ween, 



In the youth of Walter Deane. 



Little Walter on the wharves used to sit from day to day, 

 Waiting for the ships to bring plants from lands so far away, 

 Dandelions, buttercups, whi'teweed, chiclcweed,- all were new,- 

 With a thousand other things, well known plants to me and you. 



These, remember, were first seen 



Since the youth of Walter Deane. 



Long ago those days have fled. Walter to a man has grown, 



All the floras of the v/orld now contribute to our own. 



Yet confusion cant arise, all new comers one by one 



Have been noted by our friend since their inroad first begun; 



So we know what's indigene 



Prom the youth of Walter Deane. 



Written oy Sdvy.L.Rand. 

 Read by E.P.Williaias at the supper after the meeting of 

 the ITew England Botanical Club, on Friday evening,, April 5, 1901. 

 The jol';e is that Pernald through sone mi stake, inade an entirely 

 false statenent . I never was at Old Orchard Beach till I was a man, 

 and then only once, and before I hnew aiiything about plants. 



Walter Deane, April 14, 1901. 



