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Mt. Diablo from Vacaville [drawing of Mt. Diablo]
--Populus fremontii--seeds of the Cottonwood now flying, filling the air with a shower of floating bodies, a little like snowflakes. The children receive this phenomenon as a part of their fairy world. The white tufts come out of nowhere and dance in the sunshine, and pass to earth. --Met Hart North in the street of Vacaville. He has land in Berryessa Val. [Valley] which he is planting to fruit and thereby is removing _Valley Oak_. He
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[Mt. Diablo from Vacaville.] -ville, May 3, 1912. [Drawing of Mt. Diablo]
speaks, as others, of the great flow of water from the cut trunk--"ran a stream", as he expressed it.
--Pommell, L.H. of Ames Iowa, called for me afternoon about Apr. 25. Took him over the grounds _ gave him specimens of conifers.
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