Letters to a Friend 



Roses with us are now in their grandest splen 

 dor. 



My address for five or six weeks from this 

 date will be Portage City, Wis. 



[1867.] 



I am now with the loved of home. I received 

 your kind letter on my arrival in Portage four 

 weeks ago. I have delayed writing that I might 

 be able to state when I could be in Madison. 

 I have never seen Arethusa nor Aspidium 

 fragrans, but I know many a meadow where 

 Calopogon finds home. With us it is now in the 

 plenitude of glory. Camptosorus is not here, 

 but I can easily procure you a specimen from 

 the rocks of Owen Sound, Canada. It is there 

 very abundant, so also is Scolopendrium. Have 

 you a living specimen of this last fern r Please 

 tell me particularly about the sending or bring 

 ing Calopogon or any other of our plants you 

 wish for. I have no skill whatever in the matter. 

 I am enjoying myself exceedingly. The dear 

 flowers of Wisconsin are incomparably more 

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