
          638.

evergreen or the fern that I cared to take home.  Several
Tulip-trees were observed.  They each had a long crack along
one side of the trunk, caused by the frost.  These cracks
grow together again in the spring, but a peculiar ridge is always
left showing where the crack was.  The leaves of the 
Kalmia <s>had a</s> were very dark green and drooped and had a frozen
appearance.  I returned home at 5 o'clock.

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Dec. 28, 1901. To Catonsville and the ravine.  I left home about
10 o'clock.  The morning was cloudy, raw & chilly.  I got to the terminus
about 11 o'clock.  I took the route past the open field
and to Owl spring.  I stopped a few moments to examine the 
patch of Aplectrums marked last year near the field, and found
them growing nicely.  Before I reached the spring I stopped to eat
my lunch.  I then hurried on to the spring.  I found it filled
with leaves notwithstanding the branches that Mr. W. & I had lain across
the top.  I, therefore, set to work and cleaned it out. This work done
I collected a nice lot of Christmas Ferns to use for decoration.  It was
about 1 o'clock when I started for the cascades. The brook to-day
was quite wide and rapid.  The ground was everywhere frozen.
Near the great fallen tree the brook has taken a new course.
        