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The Perennial Adventure 
-spending Denver winters with herstudents and summers among 
the Colorado flora. Her salary rose to $100 a month, and her 
botanical library and herbarium increased in size. She also man¬ 
aged to save enough to buy a lot in downtown Denver, going in 
with her father. When there was a real estate boom she sold her 
share for $10,000. 
“I felt like a millionaire,” Miss Eastwood confessed to Mrs. 
Wilson. With a keen business sense, she then invested $5,000 in 
a building with her father; bought two more lots and built two 
small houses for rent income, all this for the remaining $5,000! 
“Now,” triumphantly she told herself, “I can retire and devote 
all the rest of my life to Botany! ” 
From reading, she decided that Ponce de Leon was right, Flor¬ 
ida must truly be the “Land of Flowers.” She accompanied an 
ailing friend on a train headed that way. But it was a year of a big 
freeze, and she found seashells far more plentiful than flowers. 
Leaving the beautiful beaches after a few weeks, she visited St. 
Augustine and started north on her first sea voyage—from Jack¬ 
sonville to Charleston, South Carolina. Here she switched back 
to train travel, destination Washington, D. C. She called on fel¬ 
low botanists in the National Herbarium; and also took in the art 
galleries, seeing great paintings and sculpture for the first time. 
She attended concerts, and several sessions of the Senate. 
Cincinnati was her next stop—where Alice Eastwood added to 
her enjoyment of untamed beauty a lasting appreciation of the 
art of landscaping and plant cultivation. She reveled in planned 
gardens abounding with spring bulbs in full bloom, lilies-of-the- 
