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tramples down and not a flower was visible.  Careful search
revealed that 6 insignificant little plants without a flower alone
had been left.  Going to the main field we found the same condition
of affairs, every plant that had a flower was taken.

To be <s>the</s> witness of the destruction of these beautiful rare plants
made us feel very bad indeed.

From the spring we crossed the fields to York R'd and then
proceeded to Towson, where we took the car for home.  Before
T. was reached we saw the pretty Catholic church, finely located
on the summit of a high hill.  It is said to cost $85000.
One thing alone, I think spoils its inspiring appearance.  It has
the letters B. V. M. in large letters on the roof.

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October 12, 1901.  A trip alone to Glenburnie.  I left home about
9 A.M.  It was misting, so I took an umbrella.  The temperature
was delightful so I walked.  In a corn-field beyond B.
a corn-stalk in whose tassel were a number of grains of
corn attracted my attention.  Such grain, of course, have no
protecting sheaths and form no ear.  Examples of this kind,
show that although the tassel consists generally of staminate
flower only, it sometimes also produces pistillate ones.
        