> BUT ENOUGH OF BOTANY FOR THIS TIME. SOME OTHER, I WANT TO TELL YOU 
ABOUT THE REMARKABLY EUROPEAN FACIES OF OUR FLORA, WHICH I HAVE NEVER 
SEEN ANY VERY DEFINITE ALLUSION TO. STILL, BEFOf^ I FORGET IT, LET ME 
SAY THAT IF THE TWIG OF HE^^E ’’OAK*’ I SENT YO^T IS NOT Q, CHRYSOLEPIS, 
_ IT IS PROBABLY BERBERIS ^OUIFOLIA, WHICH IS iiSEO FOR HEDGING. 
NOW FOR SOME DOME^^HC NEWS. AFTER MA'fuRE DELIBERATION, AND NOT- 
WITHSTANDING THE SEVp^ LEGISLATIVE F I CHt FROM WHICH WE HAVE JUST EMER- 
GED : ALITTLE THE^WORSE FOR FUNDS, B^T NOT BADLY HURT : I HAVE CONCLU- 
DED TO GO INTO VENTURE OF BU|jdJING ME A HOUSE AND TRYING TO HAVE A 
LOCAL HABITAT.J^CN OF MY OWN. Y^tf^AY TAKE THIS AS AN EARNEST THAT I LIKE 
but I aXFECT I AM BORf)WG Y_QU NOW — 
WESSEN Da\ GFFAESS 1ST (^EFUELLT, 
OAVON ES SPRUDEU^ UNO UE BERQUi DLT* * * 
SO I’LL SAY aX^^^^ A^OUT THE OAKS X QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM^ 
! INCLOSE T^FLOWERS OF^W^AT I NOW TAK^^O BE Q,, LOBATA, JtK WHIT 
OAK SO CALLED HEREABOUTS, W I TjXtHE PENDULOUS BLANCHES, AND WHEREOF THE 
.YOUNGER TREES ARE SoS^NFESTE 0 . W iXl HUGE GALLS. 
MENSIS, THE BLACK OAK^ S^F WHICH I 
TWIG OF A VARIETY OF 
A YOUNG TR££. 
LSO A LEAF OF 0. SONC 
VE NO FLOWERS/VALSO A FLOWERING 
SLENOBR BBANCHE5 
WKTH STRAIGHT AN 
GROWING IN XcQWPfeN, J^E^y J^J-UXUR I ANT^ OlNJHE^MOUNTA I N 
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