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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Mar 13., Charles Sprague Sargent Mar 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Mar 13., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica plain, Mass,.........March 13,...............1899.

My dear Muir:

The mail has just brought me yours of the 8th and I hasten to congratulate you on the termination of the grippy condition of your family. It has been a horrid winter, I believe, for every one and I rejoice that it is nearly over. Massachusetts, however, is not California in March, and we are still enjoying east winds, slush, melting snow, mud and all the other horrors of our spring.
Your Oak was duly received and seemed to us at the time to be Quercus Garryana, but who …

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Letter From Binger Hermann To John Muir And Warren Olney, 1899 Mar 10., Binger Hermann Mar 1899

Letter From Binger Hermann To John Muir And Warren Olney, 1899 Mar 10., Binger Hermann

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

DEPARTMHfT OF THE INTERIOR,
COPY General Land Office,
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 10, 1899,Mr. John Muir, Resident, and
Mr. warron Olnoy, Vice-President, Sierra Club,
San Francisco, California.

Gent1amen:-

Replying to your telegram of March 7, 1899, I have to say that the evidence before this office ie overwhelmingly against sheep-grazing in the Sierra Forest Reserve.
The reasons stated for opposing the pasturage of sheep within said reserve aro of the most substantial and convincing character, and come from what appears to be disinterested souroes. The Forest Superintendent and Supervisors have made exhaustive reports opposing it.
There are four petitions from …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Mar 9., John Muir Mar 1899

Letter From [John Muir] To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Mar 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

new forest club

Martinez March 9/99

My dear Mr Lukens

I am very glad to learn that your forest preservation Club is started No doubt you will soon gain many numbers & it cannot fail to have great influence for good
With best wishes for the new Club, & for yourself & family hoping that Lottie is now quite well

I am very truly yours

John

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Mar 9., Robert Underwood Johnson Mar 1899

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Mar 9., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

March 9, 1899.

R.W.GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C C. BUBL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

My dear Muir,

Mr. McAneny, secretary of the Civil-Service Reform Association, and Herbert Yfelsh of the Indian Bureau are going down very soon to Washington to see Hitchcock, the new secretary of the Interior. Before they go I am going to give McAnany some points with reference to the condition of the forest reserves. He will try to get them placed under the civil-service rules— or, at least, under a better system than now obtains. I will write a letter …

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Letter From Annie L Muir To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1899 Mar 1, Annie L. Muir Mar 1899

Letter From Annie L Muir To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1899 Mar 1, Annie L. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage, Wis. Mch. 1-99 My Dear Sister Louie, Recent letters have told of your very severe illness & John’s last one to Sarah, of your convalescence, I am very glad to know that you have so far recovered as to be able to out of doors again and over to see Maggie. Be thankful that you have so very beautiful & pleasant a country to saunter out in during these days of weakness & weariness. Even I, who have been there, can hardly realize that the orchard trees are growing & the hills & valleys green & spring like. The …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Feb 23., Charles Sprague Sargent Feb 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Feb 23., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.February.. 23,.........1899.

My dear Muir:

I am distressed to learn from your letter of the 16th that your wife is still suffering from the grippe and that you are having an unsatisfactory time of it. I hope the advent of spring will restore her to health. I have had about asunsatisfactory a winter as you have, and practically have accomplished nothing but letter-writing. I mulled over Crataegus so long that my mind is blank.
You do not say if you have received the twelfth volume of The Silva. I am anxious to hear how …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Feb 21., John Muir Feb 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Feb 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

helping me to first appointment as Collaborator in Forestry

Martinez, Feb. 21 1899.

My dear Lukens

I received your letter yesterday & immediately wrote the recommendations you requested I dont know either the Sec of the Interior or Hermann. but I sent it to the Care of Pinchot whom I know well & who is at the head of the Forestry Department. The place formerly held by Fernow. I hope you will get the appointment for your are just the man for the place.
I'm very sorry to hear such alarming news about your health & devoutly hope the Doctors …

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1899 Feb 20., John Muir Feb 1899

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1899 Feb 20., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb 20, 1899

My dear Sellers.

Your letter has the right jingle. A few months more or less in the business woods spent in having a way out is all right still I think you should have been out ere this, & need special grace for these last months to [avoid?] over work & worry & prevent them from growing into years - Few Chicago business men lose less then ten years of life beneath the weight & worry of these huge compound forty story commercial affairs Tell Frank to say a moderation prayer every morning as a help …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1899 Feb 16., John Muir Feb 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1899 Feb 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb. 16, 1899.

My dear Prof Sargent.

I'm going to the city in a day or two & will hunt up tree pictures. I have written to two [skaging?] inhabitants about the birch flowers & hope to get them.

[in margin: oaks are now putting forth leaves & flowers. Winter gone & nothing [illegible]]

You expect me to make the effort of my life on your book. It bids fair to take all my life What with grippe & a swarm of distracting interruptions I got little done this winter almost nothing. Mrs M. has been laid up with …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles A.] Keeler, 1899 Feb 16., John Muir Feb 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Charles A.] Keeler, 1899 Feb 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb. 16, 1899

My dear Mr Keeler.

I thank you for the little book on Southern California It is well done, infinitely better than those R.R. Tourist things so common nowadays the [Mustrations?] too are capital & deserve a better place. Why not make half a dozen books of this little one without special reference to R.Rs hotels, tourists, etc I'm sure the world would give you a hearing. Go ahead!

With best wishes hoping your fine talents will speedily find due expression

I am heartily yours

John Muir

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Feb 11., Robert Underwood Johnson Feb 1899

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Feb 11., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

J

EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
UNION SQUARE-NEW-YORK

February 11,1899.
R. W.GILDER,EDITOR.
R.U.JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C.C.BUEL
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr.John Muir,
Martinez,Cal,
My dear Muir,

I was very glad indeed to get your letter of the 23d of January with its information that the forest reservations of California are rapidly going to destruction.If this is the case I want to know it.The one man that I know who could do more than any one else to stop this is John Muir of Martinez, California.I wish I had thought when he was in the East to ask him to go to see President McKinley …

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Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1899 Feb 11., Sarah Muir Galloway Feb 1899

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1899 Feb 11., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Portage, Wis.

Feb 11./99

Dear brother John

I had a letter from Maggie yesterday in which she told me of Louie's long and serious illness, I heard some time ago that she was sick, but supposed that she would be well again until Maggie's letter came, she also said that for some days she had been better, I hope that she will keep on improving and soon regain her usual health.
I hear that your winter in proving colder than usual I wonder if you will feel

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[2]

the difference as much as we do here, we have …

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Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1899 Feb 10., Alfred H. Sellers Feb 1899

Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1899 Feb 10., Alfred H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Feb 10, 1899

My dear Muir -

I am again a slave my neck is again under the yoker, but I hope only for a few months.
Yesterday the Board of Directors and circumstances made me President of this company, and that means I must be at my desk every day from 9am to 5pm. I fought hard against it and had I not [illegible] it would only be for a short time would never have yielded. The circumstances are these, the three companies have have been fighting each other very hard and there is now strong probability that …

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Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1899 Feb 7., John Muir Feb 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1899 Feb 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb. 7. 1899

My dear Cousin,

I am very sorry to hear of the severe illness of your dear mother & at the same time glad that she is now getting better. You must have had a weary anxious time I fondly hope & pray that she will speedily recover with the coming good weather of the spring. This has been a stormy sickly winter over most all of our country. Mrs Muir has been in bed eight weeks with the Grippe & is not yet able to be up though getting better slowly. Wanda also was laid up …

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Letter From John Ritchie, Jr. To John Muir, 1899 Feb 1., John Ritchie Jr. Feb 1899

Letter From John Ritchie, Jr. To John Muir, 1899 Feb 1., John Ritchie Jr.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

February 1. 1899

Rev John Muir,

Dear Sir,

It gives me pleasure to send to you enclosed the formal notice of your election to Honorary Membership to the Appalachian Mountain Club It is the highest honor that Our Club can confer as a mark of appreciation for labor or researches in the fields of Alpinism - and I am pleased that so worthy a worker as yourself has been selected for this compliment.

Cordially Yours

John Ritchie Jr

Cor Sec A M Club

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[letterhead]

DEAR SIR:-

At the regular meeting of January, 1899,you were elected HONORARY MEMBER of …

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Workaday World, February 1899, University Of The Pacific Feb 1899

Workaday World, February 1899, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From Francis George To John Muir,January 28, 1899, Francis George Jan 1899

Letter From Francis George To John Muir,January 28, 1899, Francis George

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Valona Jan 28th 99 Mr. John Muir. Dear Sir, In reply to your favor of the 8th would asked to be excused for keeping you waiting so long as I had a hard time in collecting the several amounts & getting them on record as per bills & receipts, which is as follows. To lumber for Hall 1234.35 “ Painting 199.25 Labor 634.30 833.55“ Bricklayer 36.25 Excavating 21.00 57.25 “ Hauling 69.45 Plumbing 23.95 93.40 “ Plastering 115.50 Hardware 67.75 183.25 “ Millwork 39.17 39.17 “ 240 Theater chairs 155.00 hauling same 1.50 156.50 Curtain & scenery 65 2,664.47 Amount …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 28., Charles Sprague Sargent Jan 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 28., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass.,January 28, 1899

My dear Muir;

Yours of the 23rd with photographs have just come.I am delighted to have your portrait in such good company as the Sitka Spruce. I am in hopes that Lemmon's photograph of the Sugar Pine will answer our purpose,although I cannot tell until I hear from the man in Washington who makes the transparencies.It would be a good thing to have in this series of transparencies a good view in the forest of Abies magnifica.We already have two transparencies of the Big Tree but still need the Redwood.
Mrs.Sargent …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Apr 3., Charles Sprague Sargent Jan 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Apr 3., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass,...........April 3,............... 1890.

My dear Muir:

I have yours of the 28th with photograph of Picea engelmarmi in the Bitterroot Reservation. The picture is a lovely one and, ifit will answer for the purpose, I will have a transparency made from it. Will let you know in a few days what luck I have in this. I still want the Redwood and Sugar Pine, hut these are difficult fellows to manage, for the bigger the tree the harder It is to photograph it well.
I return Mr. Sawyer's letter and enclose the notice about …

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Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1899 Jan 27., John Muir Jan 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1899 Jan 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 27. 1899

My dear Mr Page

My friend Dr E.R. Taylor writes me that his new book of verses is ready for publication & that he is going to offer it to Houghton Mifflin & Co. This is the book I spoke to your about last fall. I wish it good luck & therefore will be glad to hear of its acceptance by your firm.
I am pegging away at the woods amid many distracting grippy interuptions that Silva river I find a big touch rugged job.

Ever Cordially yours

John Muir

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Letter From Charles Mohr To John Muir, 1899 Jan 27., Charles Mohr Jan 1899

Letter From Charles Mohr To John Muir, 1899 Jan 27., Charles Mohr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Jan 27. 1899

Dear Mr. Muir.

I took the pleasure a couple of days past to mail to you a copy of the second edition of the Southern Timber Pines, which has been lab[illegible] issued. I shall happy if you will accept the book in kind remembrance of the hours you did spend with us in Mobile.
The present is a strange winter with, Cloudy skies, scarcely interrupted by bright sunshine, continued chilly damp weather with frequent storms and heavy rains prevails almost constintly. In consequence I am doomed to indoor life, and have more than my wanted share …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 26., Charles Sprague Sargent Jan 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 26., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain,Mass.,January 26,1899

My dear Muir:

I return your letter and newspaper cut.It sounds monstrous these superintendents(did you ever hear the name of one of them?) holding a solemn conclave to allow the destruction of.the Washington forests at the rate of $5.00 per thousand sheep.What are we going to do about it?Clearly it is time to begin another crusade,but who has the time and strength to do it and what good is coming out of it all? I confess I feel discouraged.I am ready, however,to do what I can if you will suggest some way by …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 24., Charles Sprague Sargent Jan 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 24., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain,Mass,January 24 [illegible]

My dear Muir:

Thanks for your note of January 10th with your cool proposition that I should tell you what to say about my book.It was a bad enough job writing it,you may be sure,without having the duty of reviewing it thrust on me also.You are the fellow that can do this job better than any one else and we expect you to make here the effort of your life.
Your specimen of Sequoia came this morning.It seems to me tnat it admirably confirms Miss Eastwood's theory that the cones require two years …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Jan 23., John Muir Jan 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Jan 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible] 66a

Martinez, Jan. 23. 1899.

My dear Johnson,

I learned the other day from a reliable source that 200000 sheep were pastured in the Sierra Forest Reservation this last season. & that a company of sheep owners & speculators have sent a man to Washington to try to obtain a lease of the reservation for pasturage for next season. & that they claim to Sierra Club favors leasing the forest lands for this fine use. This is as we might expect after the Washington & Oregon resources were thrown open. Do you know the new Secretary of the Int …

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Letter From C. Alwin Schenck To John Muir, 1899 Jan 16., C. Alwin Schenck Jan 1899

Letter From C. Alwin Schenck To John Muir, 1899 Jan 16., C. Alwin Schenck

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

FOREST DEPARTMENT,BILTMORE ESTATE,
C. A. SCHENCK, FORESTER,
BILTMORE,N.O.

January 16,1899.

Mr.John Muir,
Martinez,Cal.
My Dear Mr. Muir:

I am greatly indebted for the copy of "The Mountains of California" recently sent to me.The book will certainly increase in me the "avidity" of seeing and studying those mountains personally.I hope good luck will favor me in my endeavors to take a trip out west.
I am glad to know that your trip to Florida etc. in the company of Prof. Sargent continued to be pleasant.I would have given a great deal to have been able to accompany you on such an …

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Letter From G. Mercer Adams To Olaf Ellison, 1899 Jan 13., G. Mercer Adams Jan 1899

Letter From G. Mercer Adams To Olaf Ellison, 1899 Jan 13., G. Mercer Adams

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Akron, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1899.

Mr. Olaf Ellison,
101 Adams Express Bldg.,
Chicago, Il1.

My dear sir:-

I have your favor of yesterday in regard to the article on John Muir which you kindly submitted for SELF CULTURE.
I have it entered to appear in the March number of the magazine, and already have the manuscript prepared for press, and a half-tone made of the Muir portrait to embellish the article.
I hope you will enjoy your visit to the Pacific Coast on the mission on which you are about to set out. Pray make my compliments to Mr. Muir …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 13., Charles Sprague Sargent Jan 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 13., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

jamaica Plain,Mass.,January...13.....1899

Dear Muir:

Redwood and Sugar Pine photographs--how are these to be had for enlargement into transparencies for the Museum in New York where these two friends of yours ought to appear to the best advantage? Do not some of The:young men in your Sierra Club take good photographs of trees or forest scenes? It would be practically impossible to get a photograph of either an isolated Sugar Pine or Redwood that would do justice to these trees.Possibly somebody has taken a distant view of a grove of Sugar Pines or a nearby view of one of the trunks.In …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1899 Jan 10., John Muir Jan 1899

Letter From [John Muir] To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1899 Jan 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan, 10, 1899.

My dear Prof Sargent.

I've been thinking about that Silva River job but it wont take shape. Cant you sketch me the outlines of the thing? You tell me you are passing your time pondering Crataegus & you want me take up the balance of the trees blandly informing me that in the forests of North America I have an opportunity of doing "a tip top piece of work". While no end of other things are pushing me. Still I hope to try. I am now haggling with the Yosemite Park making slow progress.
I'll try …

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Jan 10., John Muir Jan 1899

Letter From [John Muir] To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Jan 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

us to mountain club in South sheep in mts excess want to have them removed

Martinez, Jan. 10, 1899.

My dear Lukens,

I am glad to know you look favorably on a mountaineering club for your end of the state & I send you the first Mazama bulletin for ideas. You are so far from S.F. you need a club there in the south. The more clubs the better for we are going to have a good deal of work in the reservations. The sheepowners in particular are already giving trouble & promise more next season. I have just learned …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 7., Charles Sprague Sargent Jan 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Jan 7., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jiimaica pLAIN,Mass.,......January 7,1899.

My dear Muir:

I realize greatly the importance of being up and moving.If we do not do it we shall soon die of old age.Just now, however, Crataegus gives me as much mental and physical activity as I can stand. When this new field is exhausted and you have got those Birch flowers from Alaska I shall be ready to start forth again on our travels.
I have been in New York this week for a day hunting up Crataegus in the Columbia College Herbarium and was fortunate enough to see the Gilders.They …

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