LETTERS FROM PROF. S. B. GREEN. 297 
LETTERS FROM PROF. S. B. GREEN.’ 
Munchen, Germany, June 20, 1900. 
Probably Mr. L has told you of our trip up to Heidelberg, where I 
left Mrs. Green for sixteen days while I tramped in the Vogelsbergs and 
Schwartzwold. From there we came here, stopping at Hohenheim on the 
way, which we visited from Stuttgart. This, I believe, is the oldest agri- 
cultural school in Europe. It has about 120 students in winter, is very 
prettily located, and should think it a good institution. Here is where 
Wolf did so much to develop agriculture as a science. The experiment sta- 
tion here has a fine new building, finished last year, but the work seems 
to be chiefly confined to chemistry. The institution seems to be prosper- 
ous. One thing that strikes me as very peculiar is the having of beer gar- 
dens on the grounds of schools and colleges where they are little remote 
from town, but it seems to be quite common. 
At Stuttgart I visited the private school for boys of Mr. Gaucher. It is 
really a school for teaching the growing and pruning of fruit trees. Most 
of the attention seems to be given to pruning trees into curious forms, and 
as espaliers, etc. His model tree garden is said to be the best in “form 
trees” in Europe. About twenty students attend here and work in the nur- 
sery. Mr. Gaucher was away in Paris, with an exhibit of his “form trees” 
at the Exposition, with four of his students. 
At Munchen I met with the Schenck party again, and, after finding a good 
pension for Mrs. Green, I went with them into the Bavarian Alps, where I 
found much in forestry that was of interest to me. On my return I found 
that Mrs. Green’s niece had arrived from Italy, and we all three went to 
the Oberammergau Passionspiel together. We enjoyed this very much. 
Oberammergau is about four hours’ ride south from here in the moun- 
tains. Immense crowds go there to the play, which is held every Sunday, 
and occasionally an extra play is given. Saturday was a holiday, so it had 
been decided to hold it on this date as well as Sunday, but the crowd was 
so great they also held it on the following Monday. Prof. Mayr, professor 
of forestry, has been very attentive to me here, and our stay has been very 
instructive and pleasant. Tomorrow we start for Berlin and will stop at 
Nuremberg, Erfurt and Dresden on the way. 
Dresden, Germany, June 27, 1900. 
Well, here we are in Dresden in tip-top order, having arrived here from 
Leipzig last night. Wife determined to get a good pension here, as we are 
to remain for five or six days, and we have struck it very nice. Found a 
very nice place conveniently located and have all we could ask for in a 
pension for five marks each ($1.25) per day. It is quiet, well furnished, 
spotlessly clean, and the food is good and people pleasant. Here we expect 
to spend a day on the Elbe, visit the botanic gardens, forest school, etc. It 
is a beautiful clean city and appears more like a thrifty American city than 
the old cities we have heretofore been seeing in Europe. 
You will want to know what we have been doing since I last wrote you, 
which I think was from Heidelberg after my return from a trip of about ten 
days in the Vogelsbergs in Hesse-Darmstadt. Our party then moved south 
into the northern part of the Black Forest country, where we found forest 
conditions much different from those we had seen in the Vogelsbergs. The 
latter consist of rather low mountains or high hills, and most of the land 
