
          968.

took one specimen and after arranging our plants started for the 
station which we reached about 6 o'clock.  The train arrived
on time and by 7 we were back in Baltimore.

461
August 15, 1903.  With Mr. W. from Towson to Loch Raven, then to Glen Ellen
and home by way of the Dulaney Valley R'd.  We met at T. at 9 A.M.  It
was very sultry, early in the morning it was cloudy and looked like rain.
Our summer, thus far, has been very wet, not a week passes but that we
have two or three days of rain.  When we left T. it looked like we
might have rain, so we took our umbrellas with us.  It soon brightened
however, and remaind so the rest of the day.  When we reached the
Providence R'd, Mr. W. thought we might go out that road and try to
reach Loch Raven, by way of one of our former routes.  Near the Cromwell Bridge
R'd we met a Mr. Park, who lives on the Chew estate on the west side
of the road.  He has a fine home and is apparently doing well.  Notwithstanding
we found him quite dissatisfied with existing conditions.  We <s>spoke</s> talked with him
quite a while.  He told us how hard it was to get help, although he paid
$1.50 and $1.75 a day.  Beyond Park's house we came to the path leading through
the woods.  Here it was where we 2 years ago found so many Cypripedium acaule.
This plant, now, does not seem to be so plentiful.  We found the Pogonia
spot after a little searching.  The plants are still green; no pods were
        