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your hands, otherwise it would have been sent to you at Lincoln. In reply to your request, a copy has been sent, but as a new edition is in press and will very soon be issued, I should prefer you would review that instead of the old one. Will send you a copy as soon as it is published.
Yours very respectfully,
[signature] E. S. Bastin.
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Granville, Putnam Co. Ill. Feb. 16, 1888.
Prof. Bessey, Dear Sir,
I received your favor of the 8th. I am grateful for your kind offer to name the grasses of Chase Co. Neb, for me. I will continue my work in collecting flowers as soon as I return to my homestead there. I will send you the grasses as they bloom, and other plants if you wish, -- or if I fail to name them. We have the "Buffalo Grass" and "Gramma," as you described them in "Forage Plants of the Prairies and Plains" in the Prairie Farmer last May. Do you wish specimens of
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them? Do you want roots? How shall I manage tall grass? Shall I send them as soon as gathered or wait till they become dry in pressing?
I mail to you with this five specimens, so that you may see the way I am accustomed to prepare them and tell me in what ways I can improve those I send you. They are gathered from the Sand hills of Chase Co. I have duplicates.
The time of my returning to the west depends on the health of my parents.
During the two years preceeding last March, I taught school two miles from Lincoln.
Respectfully, Ellen C. Blake.