She has found and 
forbidding summits draped in eternal snow a 
established her claim to a, new and vast realm, a realm of fragrant 
bloom of which the world knew nothing. 
For untold ages the plains, the valleys and the mountains 
of this remote land have bloomed in vain. The carpet of tender 
blossoms has, year after year, spread itself over the vast slopes 
creeping eagerly upy/ard behind the fields of retreating snow to 
the very margins of the glacial ice. 
Mrs. Walcott’s footsteps have rustled these endless clouds 
of bloom heretofore undisturbed save by the feet of the deer, the 
elk and the bear and by the breezes that come with the tardy spring. 
She has not wandered in these far fields in vain. She has filled 
her portfolio with a marvelous record of the wild - a surprising 
and wonderful display. Thus she has made for herself a lasting 
place in the realms of both science ana. art. She has brought 
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home to the world a record of bloom, the pages of which make for 
her a monument not less enduring than the monument of stone. 
Read also at a dinner given by hr. G-eorge P. Merrill in 
celebration of my eightieth birthday at his home, Mrs. Walcott 
being present, t r v n r 
