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The wild barberry at Clermont is of interest. Elsewhere we have 

 i^ivcn the date of the introduction of the bush by Governor WilHani 

 Larrabee. The wild plants occurred on both sides of the highway 

 and in the woods on a sloping hill, before reaching the valley of the 

 Turkey river. In some cases the older plants appeared to be about 



Fig. 73. — A single large Barberry on the Lowry place, Montpelier. Photo- 

 graphed by A. L. Parrman, 1918. 



twenty years old. Many of the plants were, however, only four or 

 five years old. 



The Wild Barberries at Galena, Freeport and Port Byron, Illinois. 

 — The limestone rock of the Galena region is highly favorable for 

 the development of wild barberry. Some very large cultivated 

 bushes with thousands of shoots occurred at several points in Galena 

 and Port Byron. How long the barberry has been cultivated in 

 Galena is not known, probably twenty or thirty years. The court- 

 house was built in 1839. It is probable that the barberries were in- 

 troduced much later. The large plants may have been thirty-five 

 years old, or perhaps forty. Up in the limestone bluffs about one- 

 quarter of a mile distant from the cultivated barberry plants were 

 barberry plants w^hich had been carried there by birds. Wild bar- 

 berries also occur at Freeport, according to the statement of Mr. 



