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Excerpt from Orchid Hybrids: Enumeration and Classification of All Hybrids of Orchids, Published Up to October 15, 1895
Just ten years have passed since the day that you laid your hand upori my shoulder and lead the way to the room where the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society in South Kensington met. Just ten years. It is Sunday to-day. I look from my desk over the snowcapped peaks of the Sierras in the direction of the land where you reside. Quietness reigns around me. There is not a soul near but my dear wife under neath the window, busy trimming 'dying branches out of her flower bushes. The sun is setting beyond over the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles away, but still to be recognized from my lofty Alp. - I come to you. I hear the bells ring as of yore, when I first caught sight of your fair land. I was coming up the Thames on that Sunday morn after I bid farwell to my native land. Dear Sir, lay again your hand upon my shoulder and press my right with the other as you did when first we met. I breathed the air of this grandest of all churches with its high, azure dome, and still fresh with this air, still reverend with the impression of my mountain home, I come to you with a gift, praying for its accept ance.
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