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[[underlined]] Dec. 16 [[/underlined]]. To Houston & remained over night. [[underlined]] Dec. 17 [[/underlined]]. Left Houston at 6:30 AM. on S.P.R.A. for New Orleans. Big thicket along all streams across east Texas & Southern La. Almost surrounds Beaumont & Lake [[Olodes??]]. Wide prairies between streams. Cotton, rice, & sugar cane the main crops. [[underlined]] Very [[/underlined]] little fruit. Apples wont grow or pear. Pears are poor & trees do not live long - are troubled with blight. Peaches are poor & trees soon die. Oranges do well till a freeze comes. There has been little frost in southern La. as yet & the sugar cane crop is not nearly all gathered. The conspicuous plants of the thicket all the way to New Orleans are cypress, Tupla gum, Myrisa [[underlined]] Magnolia [[space]][[/underlined]] (Bay), Sabol etc. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Dec. 18 [[/underlined]] New Orleans via N & L. & So. 9:25 AM. Same old Big Thicket plants all along on bottoms, Myrisa & Bay abundant & conspicuous, Big marshes, open woods of Pinus taeda & palustris. Oranges ripening on trees, banana trees not frosted. Mainly poor white sand and open piney woods from Bay St. Louis to Mobile - Some ^[[small]] swamps along streams - After passing Mobile we go for nearly one hour through swamps & across many streams & lagoons. These swamps are dense jungles of cypress, bay, Tupla [[??]], [[??]] gum, [[??]], Sabol & vines. a red bellied Smiloxs being abundant & [[jasmine??]] vines common. Later we strike into sandy pine woods again, some fine forests of long leaved pine - mostly [[fixed??]] for turpentine. At Jasper the country is somewhat hilly & ridged & the timber mixed pine & deciduous trees.