UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



ECONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. 



Washington, D. C, 



September 16, 1915. 



Mr. Walter Deane , 



Philbrook Farm, 



Shelburne, lew Hampshire. 



Dear Mr. Deane : 



Your note of August £5 received. We shall he very glad 

 to have the grasses you have so kindly collected f or us , and appre- 

 ciate the set of Panicum tennesseense from so far north. 



Professor Hitchcock has he en in the southwest all summer. 

 We expect him home in a few days. 



Have you heard the joyful news that Mr. Maxon has a 

 daughter, horn in July? This is their first child. 



My garden is a flourishing weed-patch. I collected 

 a set of 30 of Syntherisma humifusa from it a few days ago. The 

 shortening days give almost no time for garden work. 



Please give my kindest regards to Mrs. Deane. 

 Yours respectfully, 



Scientific Assistant in Systematic Agrostology. 



