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late Dr. A. W. Chapman. Quite unexpectedly I met some of 
‘s former close associates who related numerous 
interesting inci s of that veteran botanist’s later year: 
i I ae isited the house wher °. orrie, in 
1850, invented the process for making artificial ice. I ti 
that the site of this house was once noted for the great quantities 
of the crow-foot prickly-pear it supported. a eae near 
the boat-landing, it may have been the spot wher Drum- 
mond discovered the plant when he visited on in 1835.* 
y o the yard of this house was graded with ships- 
ballast brought fro rgentina, and some of the plants intro- 
d wi e ballast are said to persist there. study o' 
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these, if carried on in the proper season of the year, would doubt- 
less prove interesting. 
Having used up the time my schedule permitted for Apalachi- 
cola, I started eastward for a short investigation of the hilly 
den 
through deep cuts in the clay and sand, remind one more of the 
hilly parts westward of the coastal plain in the more northern 
Atlantic states than of Flor 
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bject in visiting te region, aside from observing the 
general features of ntry, wa collect and photograph 
the needle-palm (Rhapidophyllum Hystrix) and study the 
native persimmon (Diospyros virgini ; Sellards, 
Stat logist, and his associate, Mr. Herman Gunter, kindly 
devoted a to field-work wi d we he c 
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of the local botanist of Tallahassee, Pictesstr Jerome McNeill. 
The persimmon trees in that region were in full fruit, and they 
proved to represent the same kind as that of the lower portions 
ot the Atlantic States, which grows naturally as far north as the 
New Haven lighthouse in Connecticut. The fruits and seeds 
* Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 19: 1-6, 1918. 
