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42_18 New York Heller as being the premier collector in the United States, - as to quality of material gathered, as to quality of specimens which were always of a high order, and as to field data which is always full. [I saw Coville in Washington and had a talk with him. He remarked that California is the most interesting state or country in the United States because the relation between climate and plant distribution is so striking, the rapid change of topography is so marked within a few miles. I also saw C. V. Pifur who had much to say about introduced plants and their history. He thinks that there is no restoring the old primacy of the native plants in the Sierra foothills and |
42_19 Jan. 4, 1926. and that we better have a lot more introductions from the Mediterranean which may be spontaneous and useful forage plants.] I was at the Botanical Garden Wednesday afternoon Jan. 6. Small said that he had to farm out his proof-reading, that he couldn't be sure of the proof himself. One of the persons that he uses is Roland M. Harper whom he describes as a very keen critic. When Sargent issued the new edition of his Tree Manual Harper wrote him that he (Sargent) should be ashamed of charging _12.00 (or whatever is the new price0 for a book with such a multitude of errors. Sargent immediately sent |
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