2 there was a good crop but nearly every flower was killed by frost most every leaf bud so that there was only a few overlapped
protected branches in special hollows that are bearn? This year The fresh ripe staminate flrs are colored rosy purple - the
pistillate bright yellow-green with a tinge of purple on the top of the scales. Not one tree in a thousand has pistillate
flrs. you can hardly guess what hacking climbing with Scotch obstinacy was required to get the few I have sent you I was determined
that the last vol of your glorious tree book should not go forth incomplete - if I could help it. I corresponded with quite
a number of intelligent people living? in the woods but in this year of scarcity they were of no account, when mid-June came
I'm glad I pushed into the wood myself. Here is a grand coniferous generalization from Lemmon? - the almost comical effort
of a giant by a pigmy I had a note the other day from our