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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Albuquerque [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] July 28 [[/underlined]] - Reached Las Vegas at 6:30 AM & Albaquerque at 12:20 P.M. Got a horse and drove across Rio Grande onto mesa west of river and then back and onto mesa east of town and around the farms alond river valley on both sides. Found no plant or bird or animal to indicate a trace of Lower Sonoran. Found no good fruit, only scrubby apples and peaches and meterines and little red plums. Hunted in fruit stores and found no good fruit except imported. There are said to be some good ranches farther down the valley but none here. Trees in town are mainly cottonwoods, boxelder, tamarisk, and peach & apple. Tamarisk grows in great profusion. A few Butterfly peas (Parkinsonia aculeata) are in blossom in yards, The native plants are - [[underlined]] Populus fremonti [[/underlined]] abundant along flats [[underlined]] Salix [[/underlined]] (narrow leaf) " " [[dittos for: abundant along flats]] " [[ditto for: Salix]] (yellow willow) " " [[dittos for: abundant along flats]]