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you will be conferring a great favor upon us as well as the Society which now owns the larger of the two.
I brought with me also two good specimens of the yucca from Nebr. and we are trying to naturalize them in our City Park. The experiment has never been tried here with the western variety.
Very sincerely yours Franklin W. Barrows
Geol. and Botany. Buff. High School.
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Valentine, Neb., April 5, 1889
Mr. Chas. E. Bessey,
Dear Sir,
The Rev. Mr. Licle of Gordon informed me that you are willing to identify plants for those who are studying them. I am a missionary of the Episcopal Church in this place & vicinity, & am very much interested in Botany, but have never gone into the details. I am now for the first time trying to identify & collect the [praeses] & plants of this region, and shall be grateful for your assistance. They have offered at Washington to do anything for me. But I woud like to make your acquaintance in this way. I have
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"Coulter", which is very defective and the 8 Bulletins of Agricultural Dept., also State Report, 1887. By the aid of all these I think I have made some hits but several mistakes. The "Buffalo" is, abundant here & cannot be mistaken. I have alist of these Nos. & will ask you to correct my mistakes. The varieties of [word] I cannot identify. The yellow is from Rushville -does not grow here. The [Juniper] is abundant at Gordon the white here. No. 17 has puzzled me along time. The varieties [word] are many in outward appearance. but not enough for me to identify more than the "blue" & "black". I am informed that the Express costs nothing. If I am mistaken, please inform me &oblige.
Yours very truly,
J. M. Bates
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Original in the New York Botanical Garden Library, Bronx, New York
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY
Lincoln Dec 31 1889
My dear { ] May I beg you to accept my photographs, sent herewith, and ask for one of yours in order that I may add it to my gallery of Botanists. With the compliments of [this museum] Cordially Charles E Bessey