This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
We see by an English paper that "Mr. Robb, the eminent American senator, and particularly versed in all subjects connected with American Forestry, has been received with distinguished honor by the French Government, who has placed at his disposal its whole official power, to assist him in the investigations in forestry, that will no doubt prove of such vast importance to the Western Hemisphere".
. Every year we hear of some one or another traveling over the earth "in the interest of American Forestry," till the whole thing has become a farce, and, we think, needs looking into. We never beard of this Mr. Robb before, distinguished Senator though he is said to be. Can any of our readers inform us where his plantations are situated, and what they consist of?
 
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