Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . ;.^, AL:>1 K.^LIA. displays of the beautiful in form and hue and texture. I doubt whether the gardens of Sol-omon excelled these of the newest of the new worlds. The foliage of Tyre and Damascusin its prime could not have been more enchanting. Here \?ere leaves in infinite variety—ovate, serrate, spiral, palmate, lobed. and cleft. Here were the finest interlacings of fiber andvein, living leaves, jeweled with diadems of dew, and armed with shining spears before thes
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . ;.^, AL:>1 K.^LIA. displays of the beautiful in form and hue and texture. I doubt whether the gardens of Sol-omon excelled these of the newest of the new worlds. The foliage of Tyre and Damascusin its prime could not have been more enchanting. Here \?ere leaves in infinite variety—ovate, serrate, spiral, palmate, lobed. and cleft. Here were the finest interlacings of fiber andvein, living leaves, jeweled with diadems of dew, and armed with shining spears before thesun. Here were velvet and mossy leaves, gossamer and oval leaves, pendants and bladesand spines, colored in emerald, in crimson, in purple, in white. Here were ferns in infinitevariety, tendrils clinging to posts, curtain-leafed vines arching overhead, ground ivy, strangegrasses—all seeming to live on air and dew and light. There was something almost spiritualin the magnificent array. The only thing lacking in the gardens was the odor; this beingdeficient in some degree even in the most beauiiful flowers. The principa
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