North Basthaa^Has sachuoet t s ,March 15,1915 , 



Dear Mr.Deane, 



Yesterday *a,s begliM&Bg of my botanical season of 1915, 

 as far as collecting phanerogamic in%% is concerned, I enclose, 'or your 

 herb irium,or ^aate basket, the entire dty's work. As you nay imagine,! **a 

 not " attracted by the sight of a beautiful plant in a neighboring "ield » 

 as most bot mists are in their reports of ne- finds;! happened to be going 

 past the public libr.iry,anrt remembered finding fine Driba there last Anril 

 and May; so I put my f aoe 4«P* to the ground, and se irohed; there ^as plenty 

 of it, all just like this. The interesting thing is that I found it there, 

 for the first time last April, the plants somethin g less than an inch high 

 ,at the highest; I kept Ending it,eieh time more adv meed, until at the 

 close of the season, in May, the plants w ei -e a or 5 inches high, r v may 

 conclude th it it win no t, do to divide up into » element ary sanies » 

 based merely on the size o' the plant. 



The asparagus ^ields are beginning to shcr* quite green,but not, with the" 

 aspi,ragus;my neighbor, Mr. George Gill, is the most successful farmer in the 

 town, and he tries to keep up modern ideas. He planted this big 'ield 



last fall with rye «id vetoh; + he vetch gets nitrates, and makes the rye 

 luxuriant, and is soon as it is "-ell developed, he wU3 plow the ^hole thing 

 under, to enrich the asparagus; there is not rmok style about George Gill, 

 but he can raise Or ops a 



As I told you at one of the meetings, I hive more bird society th m I 

 ever did in winter be:°ore;the Crows have the most to s iy»o* > course,but 

 the sounds I enjoy the most are the c ills of the meadow lark. There has 

 not been a day this winters-hen it was not actually steaming ,™h en I d?ailed 

 to hear them in the fields near the st at Ion. Cmail run across the road 

 as a tern comes along; all the fu'ms in this part o^ the town « posted " 



last fall, so there has been no shooting here, and the quail are plenty 

 and tune. Goldfinches are abu nd int , but I have not seen any 'looks as 



