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when you come back, you've got to feel your way in the matter of what you say against Washington botanists. I get around it very easily by saying I've just heard you speak of these people. It is just as well not to speak badly of people others think are decent, and it doesn't cost anything so keep still.

I have found two or three kinds of mosses in fruit, -- one a good specimen of Polytrichium [[polytrichum]], but probably they are all old kinds to you.

The Spanish book on Mexican plants wasn't at all hard reading, and at the same time not very instructive, taking up in all not over 20 plants, though about 150 pages.

My mother is saving her preserves for you when you come home. We shall even kill the fatted calf for you, and open all my grandmother's sacred preserves. And the apple pies you shall have, and tomato sauce, and -- can't I tempt you home with all this?

Lena and I have been getting bugs all the afternoon down in the cut off part of Welch's pine grove. We found quite a few weevils and some neuroptuous things that I had described to Mr Banks, a specialist on that subject, who called them Hemerobus, besides some flies and beetles.

Teddy red-head, as I used to call him, the prototype of T. Human, is coming up this afternoon and Lena and I are going to give him a Spanish lesson. Ask T. Human if he was called Teddy -- I bet he was.

Lena may be out here when you come home on her summer vacation. Wouldn't it be fun if we could all go around together? But you must get here in June for she has only June.