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filled in his otherwise leisure hours. Again the 

 winter was passed in San Francisco, from which 

 city he made numerous collecting trips as before. 

 Remaining in California, chiefly in the vicinity 

 of San Francisco, until September, 1888, he was 

 busily employed making special collections of 

 Arctostaphylos and Ceanothus and in the study 

 of these and the genus Alnus. His last visit to 

 California was made in the spring of 1889. 

 Returning to Davenport in July, he made a trip 

 to Canada and New England, visited New York 

 and Philadelphia, and returned to his home but 

 a few weeks before his death, at Davenport, on 

 the 20th of February, 1890." (Dr. C. H. Pres- 

 ton.) 



Parry discovered, during his extensive explor- 

 ations, hundreds of new plants afterwards de- 

 scribed by Dr. Gray and by Dr. Engelmann, and 

 his name is firmly fixed in the history of West 

 American botany. Horticulturists will not soon 

 forget that it was Dr. Parry who discovered 

 Picea pungens, the beautiful blue spruce of our 

 gardens, Pinus Engelmanni, Ptnus Torreyana, 

 Pinus Parryana, Pinus aristata, and a host of 

 others of beauty and value. Through his zeal 

 and enterprise, many plants now familiar to 

 American and European gardens were first cul- 

 tivated. Zizyphus Parry i, Phacelia Parryi, Fra- 

 sera Parryi, Lilium Parryi, and many other 

 plants of beauty or utility bear his name, in 



