
          " Wachitta region, the borders or Arkansas &
" Western boundary & shall probably go a short distance
" into Texas" Probably the Dr. may have written
you all this & more but if not you may be
pleased to hear or rather learn what he is doing.

He says he will send me 4 or 500 species
of plants exclusively Southern. They will be
sent to your care.

I am storeing in plants
at no small rate, at this time but if I leave
home long I shall still miss many that I
want very much.

I am laying in the 
Carices largely particularly the rarer species.

I heard by accident the other day that Dr I. B.
Crance was again in Watertown. I have written
him a letter & sent it off, whether he is there
or whether he will answer it I know not.

I have also found 2 or 3 morre specimens
of my Geranium I have mentioned before
but mostly past the flowering time. It
may prove to be nothing rare but it
differs from every-thing of the kind I
have in appearance.

Believe me truly yours

P. D. Knieskern 
        