If you like oily cabbage, the top of any palmetto will furnish it.

But, my poor friend, there's little here to tempt one's appetite or satisfy one's aesthetic hunger for flowers.

Our Northern meadows are far more gorgeous from June to October; and our wild fruits are far more delicious than what one finds growing wild in the tropics." "But bananas, cocoa-nuts, oranges--" "All cultivated!" "Persimmons, mulberries--" "All cultivated when eatable.

Everything palatable in this country is cultivated." He laughed dejectedly, then, again insistent: "But there _are_ plenty of wild flowering trees!--magnolia, poinciana, china-berry--" "All set out by mere man," she smiled--"except the magnolias and dog-wood.

No, Mr.Hamil, the riotous tropical bloom one reads about is confined to people's gardens.