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emanations from within, for there was an intervening avenue
of maple and elm, and stables and sheds, and large fields
between the manor house and the forest, which was quite
an English mile off, but we used spruce fir wood for fuel
in our tall tile stoves, and it was the lingering, redolent
air thereof, that still depicted these tiny images of its
origin on the glass, these spruce fir tracings being on a
diminutive scale, quite opposite to these various magnified
specimens observed by me in Chicago, and which you can
see for yourself anywhere when cold winter prevails.
“Where have my eyes been all this time!” you may
verily exclaim.
And it is very curious to observe that while the tobacco
leaves and cereals only show the ice figures of their
maimed forms, the celery plants on the contrary, plainly
display the shape in its entirety, the stalk, the foliage, and
if I mistake not, even partially the root, although only
the stalk, and very little of the foliage remained in front
of the frosted windows, as in the instance at the German
restaurant, first quoted in this paper. And regarding the
appearance of spruce firs in entire, though diminutive
shape, on the windows at the Swedish farm, of course
there never had been in the room any but small pieces of
spruce fir corded wood, and which had been consumed by
fire, but whose presence had been capable of depicting
spruce fir trees in their complete arborial beauty. These
seemingly conflicting evidences and conditions will set any
speculative philosopher a-thinking.
In 1888 I wrote a book, entitled: “The Floral King; a
life of Linnæus,” published by W. H. Allen & Co., 13
Waterloo Place, London, W., and I believe, incorporated in
the library of the Linnæan Society, Burlington House,
Piccadilly, London, W. On page 141 the great naturalist
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