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In the early days the use of red cedar in shipbuilding was 
now had to the coast of ae pee between the St. Mary an 
St. ene which will soon be exhau in its tu 
g the twen ce centur i center oe he red-cedar 
harvest» was gradually moved southwestward until it reached 
e Gulf Hammock an 1 the western coast 
7 Florida. For many years ‘large trees were ceieilable ‘oda 
the supply of red-cedar for making the lead pencils comes from 
trees with trunks about six inches in diameter. Although the 
supply of trees could easily be kept up by planting in its native 
The following brief notes on a three weeks’ botanical excursion 
in winter will show that even at that season of the year the Land 
facilities for study and experimentation in Mr. Deering’s 
reservations at Buena Vista and at Cutler, Flosida, 
NORTHERN FLORIDA 
Upo ee a we at once proceeded westward 
to Tallahassee. ere, two days were devoted to field work in 
company with i eee geologist, Mr. Herman Gunter, and the 
geographer, Dr. Roland M. Harper.’ Tallahassee, as the capital 
1 Roland oe pila (1878— ) was born at Farmington, Maine, 
and his home for rs has been at College Point, New York, but much 
of his life has Nee ae int hree southeasterrmost state he Uni 
Graduated from the University of Georgia in 1897, egan his professional 
1903, when he became forestry collector for the G ii 
Geological Survey. In 1905 he took the degree of Ph. at Columbia Uni- 
versi ty, and since: a time has sh almost continuously in the ice of 
f Geo bama, or a Florida, as botanist 
of Al ida, 
or geographer, or porn. He has explored all parts of these three states with 
and statistical studies than to botany.—J. H. B. 
