Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society for the Year 1886, Vol. 20: Being the Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting Held at Jacksonville, December 14, 15, 16, Also Proceedings of the Alton Southern, Central and Northern Illinois District Societies, Also, Warsaw Horticultural Society, for the Year 1886
Friend, if the secret I disclose, I have been dwelling with the rose.
Thus for a few days entertaining your producers of sweetness and beauty, we shall retain after your departure some of the fra granee which you brought with you, but of which you will have no less because we have secured so much. But your time is precious.
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