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2 The gist of these love feasts is now and then resurrected by less striking views strewed at intervals along the pathway
of a life abounding (I sometimes think) in hard tasks and small rewards. Yet more frequently they are recalled by etchings
from the pens of those devoted men who make themselves free to woo from bounteous but ever bashful nature her rarest gems.
Need I say that many times I have risen from the perusal of articles closing with your name with thank you in my heart or
that it now lifts itself in thankfulness to underlined: one yet greater for the lieve to express it on paper and for the hope
that I may soon clasp your hand and let you hear it from my lips? Your kind response of the 2d is before me and the question
about conifers brings me face to face with the fact (which honesty 3 forces me to acknowledge) that I have never had a
treatise on botany in my hand that I now recollect, but underlined: Nil desperan- dum I will do the best I can. They comprise,
in my judgement, about 75 percent of our forests and includes, in the order of their abun- dance, Yirs, white, red and yellow
leedar? . Piece , sugar. yellow: pitch and in the higher altitudes black. Hemlock ice varieties, spruce illegible ch, cypress,
yew but no Sequoya. On bottom lands we have inter- spersed Maple in variety. Ash, cot touwood, alder hazel. Our Legu nim-
osal are in small variety, Chiukopin its chief representation. Of ericaceous trees we have a greater number and the clay hillsides
where fires have swept off the fir are spangled with Ma illegible and bristle with illegible - quita ceanothus. Our forest
are made