
          Emory is mistaken in saying that it can "hardly
be made to burn." At El Paso it is the most
common "oven wood." The Mexicans use it for
heating their large clay ovens & it used to be
a common saying with us that we could always
tell Saturday by the smell.

It is, as you may suppose, quite a job to
write the different divisions of my collection
& get the materials in order. I have gone
through with the Polypets & Compositae but beyond
there is a "tierra desconoscida" which I
am timid about entering.

How shall I know what to send you?
Of course you have a large majority of the 
plants from other sources.

What do you make of the sprugeish thing 
sent by mistake among the Eriogs [Eriogoniums]? I find I
have four specimens of it left. But they all
look very young.

I have beautiful specimens of Dalea spinosa
and of the Roeberlinia looking bush I find good
fruit.

How do you progress in chimney building &
other assay office matters? I think that
I stated before that after I had taken out a
set of plants for the Gov't & one for myself. You
        