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which would not be a beautiful garden, or an 
appropriate environment for the house, or a 
suitable foreground for the outer landscape 
of American forest, hill, and stream. 
I do not know that I should say so con- 
fidently that a planter may be very chary in 
his use of exotic plants, or even dispense 
with them altogether, were I writing in 
England. Our country is incomparably 
richer in forms of vegetation than is any Eu- 
ropean land, and especially in those larger 
forms which are the planter’s chief reliance 
when he works on an extensive scale. To 
say this we need not match our whole big 
fatherland against a smaller European one, 
or even against the whole of Europe. When 
the first explorers landed, when no seeds had 
been sown here but those of Nature’s sow- 
ing, these Atlantic and Middle States would 
have seemed very rich if matched against 
all of Europe. Were the Englishman of to- 
day confined to his woods and fields, de- 
prived of what ours have sent him, he would 
be poor indeed. But did we appreciate the 
half of our treasury, we should see how lit- 
tle we really need Europe or Asia or Africa 
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