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destination 15 or 20 minutes sooner.  As it was I was crossing
the new bridge across Marley branch at 7 o'clock.  Before long
I came to a school-house and here the road branched, the easternmost branch leads to
Hawkins' Point. It was well that I asked a passerby which was the
road to take, for I would surely have taken the one to Hawkins'.
As I went onward I noticed how the apple-trees in the different
orchards were laden down with fruit.  Much of the fruit was
also on the ground and I stopped twice to help myself.  Along
the roadsides were great masses of Golden-rod (Golden-rood)
as a most-learned colored gentleman called it.) In several places
Solidago rugosa seemed to have taken possession, but most generally
it was S. Canadensis. On my way home I collected a very large
bouquet of it.  It without doubt, is the best of the Golden-rods to
collect - its flowers remain pretty the longest.  On the right side
of the road a short distance before reaching the path leading to Marley
is a place which has been cleared of its trees.  This must have
taken place some time ago for now it is quite overgrown with 
low brush.  Here close to the roadside I found Polygala nuttallii
quite abundantly.  I colleted about 6 specimens.  How, surprised was
I, on examining then more closely at home to find among them
        