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I marked several white mulberry trees for future observation.
From Orange Grove I crossed the river to stop at the Cascades.
Here near our spring I ate lunch.  While eating I heard voices,
I surmised that it was boys at the pool.  This proved true
for after eating I walked up there and found 2 boys bathing.
From the Cascades I walked up to Ilchester.  I was anxious to
get a few fruiting violets.  At the Cascade I had manged to
get two specimens of Viola blanda and now here on this road
about half way to Ilchester I find another of the same species.
I have <s>not</s> now fruiting specimens of all our white varieties, but
none of the blue or yellow.  Can it be because I am too
late or is it because they do not fruit readily, a habit
which I think they all possess more or less, V. palmata
depending almost entirely on cleistogamous flowers for the
production of seed.  When close to the spring near Ilchester, at
the spot now well know to me for its number of Orchis
spectabilis, I ascended the hillside, for here too grew
V. scabriuscula (V. pubescens).  I failed to find the violets, even
after close search, other plants have grown up to such an extent,
but what was my surprise while there looking about
        