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Excerpt from Walks and Visits in Wordsworth's Country: Two Papers
The Robert Morris sago-palm, a cen tury and a half old and ten feet high, would be disowned by the tropics. It is evidence that to some things a northern climate fails to impart vigor. More cu rious are the insectivorous plants, long known, but lately infused with new life by the magic touch of Darwin. One species is shown from Australia, another from Java and one from North Carolina. The assimilation of animal matter by plants through the roots having always been so notorious, the sensation caused by the discovery that some of them ah sorb it through the leaf-pores is somewhat surprising. Why should not the drosera live on ?ies as well as the apple tree on Roger Williams, or the peach on Andi-�?
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