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works with millions of seeds and thousands of seedlings in many 
plant families and from gll parts of the world, and the climate 
of Santa Rosa is peculiarly favorable for plant growth and 
development. He has the power from long experience to judge 
lants at a very early stage, and he has also developed methods 
of forcing them quickly into fruit. An old apple tree stands in 
his grounds, which has been forced to mother as many as 600 tiny 
seedlings at one time in order to induce them to fruit in a year 
or two instead of requiring five to ten years. In this and many 
other ways, time and space are saved and quick results are 
obtained. 
On the way to Santa Rosa, the town of San Rafael was passed, 
in the vicinity of which Moore collected practically all of the 
gill-fungi recorded in Harkness and Moore's list of. Pacific Coast 
fungi. 
On Friday, November 24, we left San Francisco for Palo Alto, 
the seat of Stanford University, and arranged for a collecting 
trip the next day with Professor L. S. Abrams in the Santa Cruz 
Mountains. Starting early, we drove to Preston’s Ravine, at 
the foot of the mountains, where nearly a hundred numbers were 
found; then crossed over the range at an elevation of 2,000 feet 
and descended the western slope to La Honda, eighteen miles 
from Stanford, where we collected quite a number of interesting 
fungi in the moist redwood forest, and returned between seven 
and eight o’clock in the evening. 
Palo Alto is a model town and Stanford University one of the 
most attractive institutions of its kind. The handsome buildings 
are all constructed according to a definite plan, and a considerable 
part of the campus of 8,000 acres is laid out in walks and drive- 
ways shaded with a variety of palms and bordered by groves of 
eucalyptus, live-oak, madronio, and various conifers and other 
evergreen trees. There are at present about 1,800 students at 
Stanford, 500 of whom are women. The institution is planned 
to accommodate not over 2,000, and it was decreed by the founder 
that not more than one fourth of these should be women, for 
the reason that an education under such favorable conditions 
and circumstances was deemed more necessary and more useful 
to men. 
