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Stoughton Sep 21st 1924

Dear Doris

The day is perfect sunny and cool which makes one feel that summer has gone and frosts will be next on the program. I am taking up plants for the house each day and Pa asked me to walk down with him around to the dump below Elmes house and see a rare specimen that he located Friday while on the team, we are going to take it up this fall and cultivate it in our garden. I must send you a specimen and let Sid tell us what family it belongs to. I think its an aster, we took the top and left only the roots till later on after another month say. we were afraid the flower might attract some ones else attention so we skin the bush, its growing in amongst the woodbine pretty well up towards the edge of the dump how or where it came from here is a conundrum, a rare thing, the blossom shuts up at night. Well our pears are most gone will be gone after today, the cool days have kept them from going too fast. I have put up nine jars and made some more jellie and colored it with wild cherries and they call it cherry jellie it flavors it also very good. I have finished the two night-dresses and shall send them along Monday.

I went up to Tinas Thursday and she gave me a boquet of dahlias to bring home she is going to give me some of the bulbs. Lonnie has got a lot of nice stuff out back of his house, his land goes way back most to the street Rockland St and gives him plenty of room for fruit and vegetables and he is a hard working man, and an ideal farmer, his house and grounds are kept up in good condition, a beautiful clematis runs around