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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain,Mass,....October...20.,......1899. My dear Muir: I am back after
an unsatisfactory journey and I am glad you did not undertake to go with me, for although I saw some magnificently colored
foliage at Nashville and Ashville the journey, on the whole, was very unsatisfactory because wherever I have been there had
been very severe frosts following a season of unprecedented drought, so really the botany did not amount to very much.I shall
have to go over a good deal of the same ground and more of it in the early spring and that will be the time for you to join
me and see our eastern vegetation at springtime.You are good for this ilegible . At the present writing I have only about
thirty-six new species of Crataegus but I daresay there are as many more stored away in remote parts of the south and in the
north too, for we have found some new ones even in Massachusetts. What are you working on in these days and how are you getting
on? I do not at all like the idea of a year passing without our meeting but it looks as if I was not going to see you in '99.I
am still bothered over that Juniper of eastern Oregon and I cannot make up my mind whether it is distinct from the high Sierra
tree or not.I wish you would go and take a look at it and give me your opinion.Apparently the fruit of the high Sierra tree
takes two years in which to 02636