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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain, Mass.,......August....24, 1899. My dear Muir:I have been much disappointed
at not getting any word from you since your return. I hope this does not mean that you are ill or are forgetting old friends.
I am very keen for having you for a companion on this last botanical journey which I expect to make. I may not get away quite
as early as the 15th; possibly about September 20th would be a good time to meet in St. Louis. In any case do not go back
on me and we will arrange details later. If you come east I wish you would come through eastern Oregon and take a look at
Nuttall's Juniperus occidentalis. I used to think I knew a good deal about this tree, supposing it to be the same as your
Juniperus occidentalis of the high Sierras. I believe now the two species are distinct. I have never seen the east Oregon
tree which appears to be common from the Klamath Lakes to the Blue Mountains. You could probably reach it easily from the
line Of the Oregon Railway-Navigation. Illegible I very much want your opinion about it, and especially specimens showing
whether the fruit requires one or two years in which to ripen. I have written to Piper and all east Oregon correspondents
but don't get anything satisfactory from them. It is very common, I understand, to the eastward of Klamath Lake where we were
three years ago. 02609