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63/ and trees which were introduced there by [[red underline]] Fairchild. [[/red underline]] Among them a number of [[red underline]] Mango trees, [[/red underline]] also [[red underline]] Ficus Benjamini [[/red underline]] and related varieties, All there trees have grown enormously. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] 1st Miami Botanical Garden [[/vertical note in left margin]] Some of them were uprooted in the 1926 hurricane and the place was submerged for about 3 feet of seawater during the hightide which occurred then Nevertheless the trees kept growing afterward. There is one stalwart Sycamore tree which has grown into a sturdy upright trunk about 20" to 24" diameter
Afterwards went to fetch [[red underline]] Mr. Gray [[/red underline]] the Miami [[red underline]] U.S. Government meteorologist [[/red underline]] who is about to be transferred to [[red underline]] Puerto Rico [[/red underline]] in the reorganisation of the weather bureau in the Hurricane region Gray, Fairchild and myself went for luncheon to the restaurant of the Pan American Air station Very interesting conversation. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Fairchild [[/red underline]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] Was glad to hear from Gray that he likes the change to Puerto Rico and that contrary to what I expected it is a real promotion to him and not a political tricks of the present administration of crowding out good men by political favorites. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Meteorologist [[red underline]] Gray [[/red underline]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] Gray tells us that he [[red underline]] has encountered much enmity of land speculators and real [[/red underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] \64
[[red underline]] estate men all over Florida because his frank and exact statements as to frost, climate rain fall, fertility did not sustain the lying statemtnts of those people. [[/red underline]] who tried to denounce him to local politicians and to Washington. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] [[/double red underline]] Lying [[/double red underline]] land sellers [[/vertical note in left margin]] Told us that after [[red underline]] long efforts to publish a frost-map of the U.S. [[/red underline]] these [[red underline]] influences managed that when the printed document occured [[/red underline]] The indications about frost occurences in the Florida parts [[red underline]] were missing and replaced by a vague [[/red underline]][[strikethrough]] statement [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] printed statement "that frost occured seldom and was of short duration." [[/red underline]] This contrasted with his published statement to inquiries that [[red underline]] there is no place in Florida 3 miles away from shore where frost was not liable to occur every year. [[/red underline]] Today got a few more showers very desirable. - Good!
[[underline]] May 24. [[/underline]] Beautiful day. Went out on ION with Andrew and William. Quite a fresh Southern Breeze 17 Miles is first kept along Southern Shore but caught no fish, weather too breezy and sea too weavy for fishing Went to [[red underline]] visit Soldier key. [[/red underline]] [[vertical note in left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Visit Soldier Key [[/red underline]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] Found a tent there belonging to campus of Miami who had left. One Bahama negro took care. We saw him perched on the wooden scaffold tower. The trees did not seem to have suffered from last winter's  frost. But some of them were