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2 any other of our plants you wish for. I have no skill whatever in the matter - I am enjoying myself exceed- ingly - the
dear flowers of Wis are incomparably more numerous then those of illegible or Indiana, with what illegible unspeakable joy
did I welcome those flowers that I have loved so long - hundreds grow in the full light of our openings that I had not seen
since leaving home. In company with my little friend I visited Mu illegible lake we approached it by a ravine in the principal
hills that belong to it, we emerged from the low leafy oaks and it came in full view all unchanged, sparkling clear with its
edging of rushes lilies, - and there too was the meadow with its brook, willows, and all the well known nooks? of its winding
00421 3 border where many a moss fern find home, I held these poor eyes to the dear dear scene and it reached me once
more in its full glory. We visited my mill pond a very? Li illegible pation affair upon a branch creek from springs in the
meadow, after leaving the illegible , my stream flows underground a few yards, the opening of this dark way is extremely beautiful
I wish you could see it, it is hung with a slender meadow illegible whose flowing t illegible leaves have just sufficient
stiffness to make them illegible with illegible table beauty as they reach down to welcome the water to the light. This illegible
one of Natures finest pieces most del- illegible ately finished, composed of just this quiet flowing water, green sedge summer
light. I wish you could see the ferns