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Please call and examine the
varied Stock at the extensive
Nurseries of

Thomas Meehan,
Germantown,
Philadelphia,

On the Chestnut Hill Railroad, close to
Gorgas Lane Station, three quarters
of an hour's ride from the city; or
on upper Church Street by
Horse Cars.

Station
Aug
10
Philad.

U. S. Postage
Three Cents
3

Prof. C. E. Bessey
Ames Iowa

The Germantown Nurseries,
[Theto?] Street, below Gorgas,
Germantown, Philadelphia

[September?] [10th?] 1880

Dear Prof. Bessey

To day I have from
your publishers a copy of
your "Botany". It will be
too late to [?] review it
properly for the next [?]
[?] [?] and [?]
but it so happens that
I had sent in to the magazine
a note that such a work
was "[?]'. I
was [?] from [?] a paper
for the Am. Ass. on "[?]
in [?] plants", and
I took a [?] [?] through
my work to see what you
said about them and
their "[?]' ([?]?). I am