The American Botanist 



VOL. XXII JOLIET, ILL., NOVEMBER, 1916 No. 4 



TJhe summer warmth has left the sA-y, 



Uhe summer sonys have died away; 



<y{nd, withered, in the footpaths lie 



TJhe fallen leaves^ but yesterday 

 With ruby and with topaz yay, 



2/et throuyh the yray and sombre woodj 

 J^yainst the dusk of fir and pine 



jCast of the floral sisterhood^ 



Uhe hazel' s yellow blossoms shine. 



— Whittier. 



THE OSSAWATOMIE PINE TREE 



By Charles Francis Saunders. 



NE of the trips expected of every tourist in Southern 

 California is b}^ the remarkable electric railway to the 

 top of Mount Lowe — ^a peak of the Sierra Madre of California. 

 On the very summit of this peak stands a small tree which has 

 rather unicjue pretensions to interest. It is a nut-pine of the 

 sort known botanically as Pimis nwnopliylla — the single leaf 

 pine — and is the solitary specimen of its species within a radius 

 of many miles. 



A generation ago on the flank of this mountain, was the 

 home of Jason and Owen Brown and their sister Ruth Thomp- 

 son, children of John Brown, the Abolitionist. One autumn 

 day in 1887, the two brothers came upon this little tree and 



