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2 rare peculiar plants of their own, one of these ravines evidently been scooped out for a fern gard- en, 120,000 of my
favorite O illegible live there, all regularly planted at equal distances. The highest point commands a landscape circle of
about 1000 s illegible - illegible composed of about 10 or 12 illegible of Fox river. Lake Puckawa? 5 or 6 nameless ones -
marsh woodland exquisilaly arranged joined about 200 hills some prairie- Ah these are the gardens for me then is landscape
gardening - while we were there clouds of every illeigle ture size were held above its flow illegible moved about as needed
- Now increase- ing, now diminishing, lighter deeper shadow, full sun shine in small and greater pieces side by side as each
portion of the great garden required - A shower too has guided over some miles that required watering The streams, the lakes,
dews, rains, clouds, in the hand of god weighed and measured, My reads of illegible dearly com- ing into life - every leaf
receiving its daily bread, - The infinite work done in calm effortless illegible mpotence Now we must leave our garden, I
am sure I do it with more pain than I should ever feel in leaving all the gardens des plants in the world, when poor exiles
flower from all countries are mixed huddled in royal pens - JM 1867 00424