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to us. I therefore filled a huge trunk with 
strawberry plants, native varieties of ap¬ 
ples, peaches and plums, and a few trees 
of a remarkable dwarf orange which was 
given me by Salvador Izquierdo, one of 
Chile’s best known horticulturists, and 
then climbed on board a direct steamer for 
New York, which port I reached after 
twenty days, just two years from the time 
I had embarked for the tropics. 
