"Lantana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not only with the plants native to the place, but also with exotics brought from other lands. In importing these foreign plants she exercised the greatest care not to introduce any pest, for she knew that when the lantana was taken to Hawaii and the sweetbrier to New Zealand these foreigners showed such a destructive fondness for their adopted homes that they came near choking out everything else. Before introducing any plant she consulted the heads of the botanical ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez |
