Excerpt from Sights and Insights: Or Knowledge by Travel
I have a small collection of dried flowers plucked from here and there: a primrose from a river's brim, a daisy form an English meadow, heather that made the Scottish highlands blush, forget-me-nots that cried out to me from the edge of the snow on the Alps, "Take me to your warm hands and heart," a blood-root from the old Coliseum, a rose from the plain of Sharon, a lily of the valley, a star of Bethlehem, a passion-flower from Gethsemane. But I have by no means a perfect herbarium of the flora of all these lands.
I have leaves from the graves of Mrs. Browning, Shelley, Keats, Wesley, Scott, etc.; living ivy from the place of Shakspeare's birth, fir from the giants of California, cedar from Lebanon, thorns from Jericho, terebinth from Hebron, olive from Olivet. But I have by no means a perfect museum of all the trees of the wood.
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