ESeUEU PAKTieULyVR DE j^SF^ICULTUfV^. 



eSTjMSION AGIRieOLA EXPERIWIENTj^L. ( 



"EL y^fSRieULTOK. MEXISj^^JO" ; 

 PUNDADO EN lees. 



"EL HOSAF^" 



FUNDADO EN 1R9S. 



OiiMad Jnare^,n}ii>i. Mexico. Jany 1 0th 1911:.;,, 



Sao. N.ic. Botanical OIuTd. -^'1. 



Boston. State of Mass. '^i. j'-j* 



My Dear Sec. '^''"■--ZlL^- ^ 



I ^to not know whethWT' yon would Teco,^ni^e or associate 'uliU 

 a desoendant of Stoughton and Watertown ancestors, who has drifted into 

 the land of "MAN ANA" eating- Ohlle peppers, Mex. Roaa« and sniffing revo- 

 lution, and inoidentily giving Rotanioal instruction in this Mexican 

 Agrl. College ,v/here we are trying to Keep theni tr>->r'] turing the plow 

 share into swords or machetes, or any old thing that will go with the 

 grito" Muerto " 



I though possibly you might sort of oonslde"'' me and possibly put 

 me on probation for awhile, until I sort of worked the war humor out of 

 my blood. 



Ag(|in a lette-r once in Qwahile from a region of eulture often ooT't 

 of smooths out the savage breast, and I always did like to have my breast 

 smoothed down,Uit mother never smoothed on that side the body. 



I would liKe very mu.3h to know something of youf society and see 

 copy of you bulletin or whatever you publish etc. 



We have had almost 4 inches of -"ain he^e in the past ^«=*ar,and about 

 a inches the year before, so that you can see it does not tske much to 

 start a revolutionary flame. 



Kindly also leprae Know number of members or ci"^culation of y^^j^ Bull , 

 etin and cost of advert Lsing , as I have to collect and ii^:^.±fy. %o)as^^''"'^ 

 300 or 400 plants of the local flora for our College heT'bar'iuja i wish 

 to sell all I can, to help me out in buying booKs, etc,f^tc. 



I have been here now 5 years, so if it is any easier for you to 

 write r,panl*i, Ti'rench or Ge-rraan , just go ahead, because we use an<j| Eng 

 text book, have i^rench maps ani cha^^^ts, and German Microscorjes so you' 

 see we go to it quite extended in languages, the Spanish being the ff 

 language we use in the class. 



I havt^ read quite a bit about Boston, and uiy Brother who died in 1889 

 graduated from Tuffts College, but I do not know as I ever heard him mention 

 Boston, so probably you got you^ mail at College Hill' at that time,. 



What books or book do you know that has a complete anylltical key 

 to families, genera and species that would cover the Mex flora? 

 We have nothing good along this line down here. 



Dr. J. N. Rose and D-^. Palmer have made me pleasant calls as they have 

 passed tliroi-igh into Mex, Dr'^pent one visit here and T took ray alass 

 and we went to the mountains together and got him pretty nearly all the 

 local cacti, some lo or 18 species. 



Thanking you in snticipation I am, 



afrao.atto y Amigo. 



ELMER STEARNS 



Botani^i;> 

 Escuela de Agrkultura 



C. Juarez, Chih. Mexico 



U.S. Address Box 1012 



El Paso, Texas. 



