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ing. However, I stopped long enough in Sie to report 
oyal P; oO. o Mrs. W. S. Jenn 
conditions at yal Palm Hamm t ings, 
then president of the Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs, into 
whose custody Royal Palm St ark had recently been com- 
ry 
mitted by the legislature of the State of Florida.* 
Continuing northward the same day, I reached Charleston, 
so that every moment of my stay could be use 
regions about Charleston hat city and vici wi eo 
he few centers of botanical activity in North rica during the 
eighteent: ntury and the earlier part of the ni I 
act these activities played such an important part in the botan- 
ical and \tural affairs of both America and e that a 
few paragraphs ubject, the later developments of 
which were the cause of my visit, may not be out of place here 
to Eur ‘op. 
and widely aoe Be in England and on the continent. 
* See Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 17: 165-172. 1916. 
