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4 Cherry trees are not known in California - as I remember it the trunk must have been two feet a half in diameter, the
tree itself 60 or 80 feet high its branches propotionately larger spreading - the cherries were black - not large - not nearly
as large as the California varieties but - a boys appreciation made them huge Your red variety was to me the best, though
both kind, were delicious. Thank you very much for the thought. Stairzon? got any place for a young man to learn fruit farming
- willing to work but with everything to learn. Please present my compliments to Mrs Muir whom I hope some AM to meet. I
illegible that you did not come to my house as my illegible Sincerely yours A.O.R. 1 San Francisco 1023 Washington
St 16th Jun 86 Prof. John Muir My dear Muir pardon my offence on failing to ack- nowledge your kindness in lending me
the Bulletin Clipping, Containing an acct of your visit to the National Park. I read it with great interest. I was -am sorry
not to have been there to see what you so graph ically describe. The? rising falling of the giant Columns of Water? is beyond
ones power to comprehend - it is awe inspiring to think of the power applied to project