
          461.

I walked along the A. & B. S.L.R.R.  Before reaching Clifford
I passed one of our old land marks an old holly-tree.

For years I have seen the tree from a distance and remember
it as once being one of our most beautiful trees.  To-day, observing what 
a very bad appearance it presented, I determined to get close to 
it.  The tree is about 35 ft. high, has a trunk 2½ to 3 ft. in 
diameter, about 7 ft from the ground it branches into 6 or more divisions.
Each of these large divisions has been stripped more or less of 
all the large brances, <s>the remains of which, either as dead
stump or stumps with a few green branches</s>.  What few branches 
still remain, if still alive, have at their ends a <s>few</s> number of
tiny twigs.  The tree, badly as it has been treated still bore
many berries.  All over the tree, one could see scars, or the
dead remains of broken off branches.

After examining the tree I again continue <s>t</s> my tramp homeward 
which I reached at 6 P.M.

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Feb. 6. 1901.  Mr. W. met me at the corner of Charles St. & Fort Av.
at 2.30 P.M.  We took the car to Brooklyn, then went to the
ravine where I found the snakes last Saturday.  Our trip was undertaken 
mainly to see the snakes.  We reached the spot, we found it
        