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" The Romance of Plant-Hunting '
Talk by F. Kingdon-Ward
In Roman times our landscape would have been bare'of many of the varieties of flora we see today. In this talk Mr. Kingdon-Ward mentions some of the plants that have been introduced into Britain, and as a botanist and plant-hunter describes the excitement of finding new species in far-away lands and of" bringing them home

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