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scented shrub, California lilac, coast lilac, ma- 

 hala mats (trailing or creeping lilac), buckthorn 

 cascara, flowering dogwood, common dogwood, 

 chokecherry, meadowsweet, wild apple, burning 

 bush, poison oak, hazel, black willow, creek wil- 

 low, velvet willow, snowberry, oso berry, chamis- 

 sal, and salal. 



Of vines and bearers of small fruit or of hand- 

 some flowers there are the wild grape, Oregon 

 grape, mahonia, huckleberry, bilberry, low 

 gooseberry, straggly gooseberry, canon goose- 

 berry, flowering currant, compact flowering cur- 

 rant, tree poppy, modest shrub, Labrador tea, 

 redwood rose, California rose, Sonoma rose, silk- 

 tassel tree, bear brush, yerba santa, yerba buena, 

 perennial monkey floM^er, mistletoe, Dutchman's 

 pipe, salmonberry, raspberry, thimbleberry, and 

 almost innumerable smaller plants. 



These glimpses of the indigenous flora of the 

 immediate vicinity of the new experiment farm 

 will serve to give an idea of the abundance of 

 interesting native material, for the most part 

 hitherto quite untouched by the plant experi- 

 menter, that awaited investigation. 



Anticipations 



Had I felt at liberty to follow my own in- 

 clinations, paying no heed to the question of 



