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51_26 Kew, England - Came to call on me in the Herbarium, Kew, Fred M. Reed of Riverside, Calif. He said: "The new Botanic Garden near Los Angeles has gone under. It was a real-estate scheme and real-estate has collapsed, everywhere about Los Angeles, in the last three or four years. It couldn't well succeed on that sort of a basis." (See p. 173). Reed _ described himself as a cousin of Robt. [Robert] Pendelton's mother. He says Pendelton is now teaching soil science at the Los Banos Agricultural College in the Phillippines; and is executor of the estate of C. F. Baker. - July 24, 1930. _ Reed has a high nasal voice which reached quite up to the top of the third story of the herbarium wing. |
51_27 Slough, July 17, 1930 - Cont. from p 25. I went down to Slough by motor coach. These new road coaches are very comfortable and very prompt. On the Chiswick High Road, a little beyond Kew Bridge, there has been cut through westward a fine broad highway with broad parkings - the "Great West Road," going clear to Bath and I suppose to Bristol. I got off at Uxbridge Road on the near edge of Slough and walked north one-fourth mile to the Seed Trial Grounds. I cross the Great Western Railway track by the overhead crossing and find the Sutton grounds next to the railway. They have a fine lot of Nemesias, brightly colored Cape Scrophulariaceae, and also some plants of Venidium, also South African, a somewhat singluar Comp- [Composite] |
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