THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. Y3 
CHAPTER II. 
Which showeth that, after the Author had fallen 
out of his reverie by falling into the Garden, 
he met with the strangest inhabitant ever 
seen since the fall of Man. 
Goldsmith’s lines — 
“ where once a garden smiled, 
And still where many a garden-flower grows 
wild” — 
would not be at all applicable to the 
spot in which I found myself. It 
united the wildness of the jungle with 
the rich beauties of cultivation. Never 
before had I seen Roses of a form so 
perfect, or of a size so magnificent. 
The Garden had been laid out in the 
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