This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V18", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The Flora of Japan is so remarkably well adapted to the Atlantic portion of the United States, that we feel a particular interest in a paper kindly communicated to us by Mr. Louis Bohmer, an excellent gardener and botanist. The exploration of the Island was ordered by General Horace Capron, who is chief agricultural adviser to the Emperor of Japan, and the document we publish is in the nature of a report addressed to him.
 
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