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as to the comparative excellence of the Dundee straw-
berry (Donald’s pride), the Black Prince, to which Mrs.
Smith gave the palm, Hovey’s Seedling, a giant kind,
_ and the several Hautbois and Alpines. The boys were
in raptures, and their elders, if more quiet, were scarcely
less gratified. Christopher remembered a Latin saying,
and declared the day should be “marked with a white
stone.”