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such other northern crops as ^[[insertion]] red [[/insertion]] clover & timothy.  Strawberries, grapes, & cherries are raised near Ft. Smith.

A yellow barked Birch grows along streams north of Ft. Smith.  Sweet gum extends some north of there but does not reach Ringonwood.  Fayetteville is at the top of the Mts., here I saw the first Ceanothus and our common "Jack-oak" of Minnesota - Q. coccinea or tinctoria, two characteristic northern plants.  Saw a single tree of Populus tremuloides just north of Seligman. Between Garfield and Seligman the country is very rough with deep gorges, rocky ledges and high, steep ridges all covered with thick oak timber.  A good place to collect.  Saw a woodchuck clinging to a wire fence near track.  It was evidently tame, was with a couple of boys.  Garfield or Greenland might either be good places to collect, but Fayetteville is probably the best point to work.

Saw no gopher hills between Ft. Smith & Marionville.

[[underlined]] June 19 [[/underlined]] Sunday - Staid at Marionville.  Found hazle, Ceanothus, plantain, poke & Jack-oak; all northern plants

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