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2 showy flrs forests on bush like herbacious plants made fringes about the palms. Then after passing through these palm
forests you come to wide open spaces sparsely planted with the cuban pine which has a round umbrella like head of spreading
branches densely clad with long bright green needles while the ground bright with sunshine is covered with a regular crop
of dwarf palmeto which seems to take the place of grass. tufts of wandy? grasses the lovely liatris with tall wandy? purple
spikes of flowers one of my favorites which I have kept in mind all these years since last I was in Florida, rising in the
midst. then along streams there were wonderful belts of woods of many species. 3 letterhead all lied together laden
with flowery vines. This morning I began botanizing before breakfast - in the open space besides the hotel, lovely flowers
in lavish abundance in trampled waste places. Then we got a carriage drove all forenoon afternoon over coral roads through
the densest pine palm laurel panpan? banyan forests full of bloom unspeakably rich exuberant wild. Kirk Munroe the writer
lives on the coast in a nice cottage among groves of wild lemon coco palms about 3 miles from here 02502