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fall, ready for the winter patronage. There are some azaleas in the parks but none where one goes very much, and there are a few roses, but,all in all, I do not think of Florida as having flowers nearly as beautiful or differentiated as those we have in the North.
I went to the Japanese Garden, which is widely advertised as being beautiful. It was, but not in the running with even many small estates in Massachusetts. They think their little city park garden very pretty too, but it is planted to just one mass of the different colored petunias for the most part. I wonder what they would think if they could see the variety of beauty we have in New England. And, even then, I understand that what they do have is planted largely by people from out of state. Mrs. Griffin, my landlady, who has been here