the American Botanist 



VOL. XXII 



JOLIET, ILL., NOVEMBER, 1916 



TJhe summer warmth has left the sky, 



TJhe summer sonys have died atvaj/; 



J*tnd, withered, in the footpaths lie 

 TJhe fallen leaves, but yesterday 

 TlSith ruby and with topaz y ay. 



2/et throuyh the yray and sombre wood, 

 J^yainst the dusk of fir and pine 



jCast of the floral sisterhood, 



TJhe hazel' s yellow blossoms shine. 



No. 4 



-Whittier. 



THE OSSAWATOMIE PINE TREE 



By Charles Francis Saunders. 



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(~\ NE of the trips expected of every tourist in Southern 

 ^^^ California is by the remarkable electric railway to the 

 top of Mount Lowe — a peak of the Sierra Madre of California. 

 On the very summit of this peak stands a small tree which has 

 rather unique pretensions to interest. It is a nut-pine of the 

 sort known botanically as Finns monaphylla — the single leaf 

 pine — and is the solitary specimen of its species within a radius 

 i if many miles. 



A generation ago on the flank of this mountain, was the 

 home of Jason and Owen Brown and their sister Ruth Thomp- 

 son, children of John Brown, the Abolitionist. One autumn 

 day in 1887, the two brothers came upon this little tree and 



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