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have over two hundred different species, with four duplicates or more 

 of each sheet. 



So, we traveled out North avenue till we struck route 19 and then 

 ambled on through Pewaukee, Hartland, Watertown, Hubbleton with 

 its disgracefully rough road, Marshall and Waterloo. Four miles out 

 from Waterloo, we discovered a pea viner in operation, and stopped 

 to photograph and ask questions. It was using electric motors for 

 power, and was blowing the hulls out to a rectangular stack, which 

 would soon rival the perfumes of Araby. When it gets dead ripe in 

 the winter, it is re-apportioned to the farmers who brought the vines 

 to the machine and is fed as silage to their cattle. No attempt was 

 made at grading ,or sifting the peas at the viner. The peas were to be 

 hauled to Waterloo, where they would be packed. Three hours of 

 running from Milwaukee brought us to Madison. 



We visited Frederic Cranefield, the editor of the Wisconsin Horti- 

 cultural Magazine, to which we contribute the monthly florists' page, 

 and talked over the coming issues, before tvn-ning in at the City Y. M. 

 C. A. We paid a visit to the botanical department of the University 

 of Wisconsin, before we left in the morning on route 12. A beautiful 

 highway it was, with some fine hills, leading through Middleton to Sauk 

 City, in Sauk county, on the Wisconsin river, where we stopped for 

 dinner. Then we went on a mile and a half to Prairie du Sac, stop- 

 ping awhile to see the Wisconsin Power Company's dam. Eight miles 

 on the way from Prairie du Sac, we stopped on this side of the Baraboo 

 bluffs at Ed Ochsner's bee yard and photographed his hundred and 

 eighty hives of bees. We also photographed a nest of the Beewick 

 wren, which had built under the cover of one of the hives. Ed in- 

 vited us back later to botanize around Sauk and Columbia counties, 

 and we accepted his kind invitation. 



The motor cops were as thick as thieves around Baraboo, and were 

 in bad odor with the traveling public. The grapevine telephone was 

 working against them on all roads leading that way, and travelers urged 

 to avoid Baraboo. We left route 12 to cross over to the new Warner 

 road, which we followed for a mile and a half to Devil's Lake, where 

 we took several pictures. 



In Baraboo, we remembered William Toole, Sr., and after supper 

 rolled out to Garry-nee-Dule to see him. Scenting an article for our 

 florists' page, we came back Sunday morning and photographed the 

 place thoroughly. This article appeared in the October number of the 

 Horticultural Magazine. Mr. Toole has reached the hale age of eighty- 



