JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. IX. August, 1908. No. 104, 
COLLECTING FUNGI AT BILTMORE. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-IN-CHIEF, 
Sty: With your permission, I accepted an invitation from Dr. 
C. A. Schenck, Forester of the Biltmore Estate, to spend two 
weeks in July at his summer home in Pisgah Forest for the 
purpose of studying the fungi of that region. My report on 
these studies is prefaced with a brief account of this interesting 
estate. 
The estate of Mr. George W. Vanderbilt is situated in 
Henderson and Transylvania counties in the western part of 
North Carolina to the south and southwest of Asheville, a region 
famous for its superb climate and magnificent scenery, many o 
the mountains being over 5,000 ft. in height and a few, the highest 
in the eastern United States, attaining an elevation of nearly 
7,000 ft. By far the greater part of the 130,000 acres in the 
estate is mountain land covered with virgin forest, the arable 
land being situated in the valleys of the Swannanoa and French 
Broad rivers near the village of Biltmore. 
Biltmore House, modeled after the famous chateaux of the 
Loire, was completed nearly twenty years ago, and with its rich 
furnishings and splendid landscape effects that have only recently 
been brought to maturity, it is easily the finest country seat in 
America. Biltmore village, two miles from Asheville and twenty- 
four hours by rail from New York, has the appearance of an 
exceedingly neat and comfortable old English village, with 
“houses in half-timbered style built of cement mixed with sand and 
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