TOWNSHIP 39. RANGE 13 

 TELEPHONE MAIN 2617 



Jxoie 20,1926 



157 Soutlx La Salle Street 

 Ghicago , I 1 lino i s , 



Miss Mary O.POllard 

 Frances Shimer Scliool 

 Moxmt Carroll, 111, 



My Dear MiasPollard 



Vilien 



a colony of violets on on^ 

 odd to meiso I 'broxigh.t seve'! 



Whien I tried to 

 foliage in any descri:^; 

 Gray and the two ¥erm( 



The leaves are segmented 

 ■blossom like the common prairie 



On page l62 of Bxdletin 

 Some Natural Yiolet Hybrids of 

 of viola pedat if ida that is the 

 the leaf. 



♦s Park with Mrs Baroody I foxind 

 hanks of the ravine, that looked 

 ,th me, 



^oxmd nothing like it in 

 coxild find,Britton and Brown, 

 .3 give no cities. 



s per the outline ahove and have a 

 Jtird's foot. 



l?9 .Vermont Agrictiltural Station 

 irth America, figure A. is a picture 

 learest to the general contoxir of 



On page 163 it is state! that Mary O.Pollard foimd a 

 hybrid of papilionacea x pedatifada ,which was the first intimation 

 that I had that you were interested in botany. 



I am enclosing one of the leaves, to supplement the outline, 

 ^and if you can throv; any li^t on the pedigree of the variety I will 

 appreciate it greatly 



Very Sincerely 



