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f lowers! alpine forgetmenot, moss campion^ And^osace, and others; with 
a bright purple dwarf priir;rose giving the most conspicuous patches of 
colour* The Park is well provided (as are all the other National Parks) 
with small museums with simple exhibits showing the main features of 
local geology, plant and animal life; and at the museums are regular 
lectures for visitors. Picking of flowers is strictly prohibited; and 
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the animals are also protected, so that many of them are very tame. 
From Denver a 40-hour train journey took me to Boston, near which 
city is the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, one of the largest 
collections of woody plants in temperate regions. The ground there is 
frozen solid from November to March; on the other hand, summer tempera— 
turesjcan be well over 90*^ (as during my visit). From a gardening stand- 
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point, the glory of the arboretum is its display of spring flowers, 
especially the lilacs, of 7/hich there is a very large collection, cherries 
and Azaleas. All these were over at the time of my visit, but the varied 
groupings of foliage of every kind were beautiful and impressive. An 
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interesting exhibit was a collection of hedges, each of a different 
kind of shrub . 
The New England countryside is perhaps the part of America most like 
England. The trim villages of white painted wooden houses, and white 
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churches with pillared 18th century facades, have^a distinctive air; in 
their gardens were roses in full bloom and other flowers. The roadside 
wild flowers were in most cases immigrants from across the Atlantic, as 
this was originally a land of forest with few sun-loving herbs. 
Moving on to New York, which again was hotter than Singapore, I 
visited the Nev/ York Botanical Garden. Again the spring flowers were ove^ 
though the rock garden still showed some of its former brightness, and 
the yery fine rose garden was just past its best. Summer bedding was just 
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completed, with many plants comiing into flower. The glass houses had 
finished their work of winter display, but contained many fine tropical 
