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able for chinquapin and swamp magnolias, and there was planted 
another large group of KalmiaSy than which these early collectors, 
like ourselves, seem to have found no shrub more admirable. 
In addition to the seeds collected from the gardens and the forests 
about it, many were collected to order by the settlers living at a dis- 
tance, and brought on their occasional visit to the sea-board.- In this 
way Michaux obtained his stock of "scrub-oak'* {Q. ilicifolia) from 
Paramus, just north of Hohokus. The seeds were kept dry and cool 
until just before the departure of a vessel, when they were packed ''in 
iron-hooped boxes, between layers of rotten wood,'* in which condi- 
tion many of them were sprouted on their arrival in France, It is 
believed that no shipment was ever lost by wreck. Mrs. Williams 
graphically describes the appearance of the wagons, witli their great 
stacks of boxes, looking at a distance like loads of hay. She also 
remembers the steady decrease in the orders, until finally the ship- 
ments ceased, nearly fifty years ago, with on^ of three small boxes. 
Reference is made to the extensive forests of Cupressiis thyoida 
that bordered the swamp, and extended into it in the form of penin- 
sulas and islands. It is definitely stated that while part of this died, 
as it is now doing, by the depression of the land, the most of it was 
cut away to be used in fencing; for the value of this timber, on account 
of its lightness and durability was early recognized. 
Of everything planted by Michaux and Saunier it is probable 
that not a vestige remains except two old pear-trees, one in the ceme- 
tery, the other just across the road, and of the history of these noth- 
ing positive is known. A double row of Lombardy poplars planted 
by Mr. Saunier for " old Mr. Stevens," remained until quite recently, 
when they were destroyed in grading. Even the orchards are gone. 
The only positive living relics are two plants of Bcrberis vi(lg(-trts 
taken from the garden by Mrs. Williams and now growing in her door- 
yard at New Uurliam. 
It seems eminently fitting that the Torrey Botanical Club should 
erect a monument to this excellent man and botanist, upon the spot 
which, the scene of his loving and conscientious labors, has so 
strangely become set apart as a depository for memorials of the dead. 
A Botanical Trip into Northern New Jersey.— The evening of 
the i6th of last July found me under the hospitable roof of Key. 
Mr. Clarke, of Stillwater, Sussex County, Early next morning nis 
two sons, students in Lafayette College, drove me three miles, to the 
southwestern extremity of Swartswood Lake. On the edge of the 
stream near the outlet, the following plants were noted: Cicutabum- 
/era, L., Myosotis laxa, Lehm., Peltandra tmduIata,'R^l, Spargamu^ll^ 
eurycarpiim^ Engelm., (in fruit), Pontederia cordata L., and Eqinsetuf 
limosum, L, Taking a boat, the young men rowed meup the wester 
shore, three miles, to the head of the lake. This shore has a f^^^^ 
limestone bluffs and sheltered coves between. The water ^^ ^.Jf^'^^^^ 
and our course lay through acres of Nymphca odorata. Ait, ^ 
Brasenia peltata. Ph. Underneath, at a depth of three feet or mo , 
the bottom is covered everywhere with the dark, regularly dispose , 
plume-like, waving stems of FQtamogeton Robblnsii, Oakes, amonj. 
