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Luther of Dubuque and Mr. Reintz of Freeport. Both men were 

 quite famihar with the plant. The town of Port Byron, Illinois, 

 is opposite LeClaire, Iowa. There were many hedges of the com- 

 mon barberry at this point. Wild plants were found along the right 

 of way of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, on both sides 

 of the track, on the bank of Mississippi river. The plants unr 

 doubtedly came from larger bushes about 800 feet away. 



Wild Barberry Plants at Montpelier and Le Claire. — The city of 

 Montpelier is one of the oldest places in Muscatine county. An old 



Fig. 74. — A clump of escaped Barberry (Ucrhcris vulgaris) near Montpelier. 

 The original clump was to the right of the house and back of the evergreens. 

 Photographed by A. L. Tarrman, 1918. 



hedge was observed on the F. D. Lowry place, one and a half miles 

 from Montpelier. The old hedge might have been between forty 

 and fifty years old. Mr. Lowry stated that the plants had been 

 there for fifty years, as long as he can remember, and he thought 

 they might have been eighty years old. We doubt this, since that 

 would carry it back to the time of the earliest settlement in the 

 county. The plants were large and many of the old stalks died 

 many years ago. Some had spread across the road some 1500 feet 

 away from the older clumps. The trees in the Lowry pasture con- 

 sisted of a row of l)lack walnut (Jucjlans nigra) on the edge of the 



