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Charles Bessey, Letters, 1891
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, DIRECTOR'S OFFICE,
Brookline, Mass., August 21, 1891.
Dictated.
My dear Professor Bessey:
How about Plums and Cherries? I have been rather hoping that I should hear something from you about that Sandcherry and also about the Nebraska Chokecherry which still perplexes me. I am get ting anxious about these things as I have to take up the genus next winter and of course shall have to rely on material gathered this sum mer. I want very much to see specimens of the mature fruit and fo liage of the form of Prunus Americana which grows in your part of the country. Can you find anyone who would be willing to send them to me? I am inclined to think that there are two or three species con founded in what has usually been called Prunus Americana and I am try ing to clear up the doubts which exist in my mind about this tree.
I venture to ask for your co-operation.
Faithfully yours, C. S. Sargent (signature)
Prof. Bessey, Ames, Iowa.
Laid on my desk and opened by mistake E.W.Stanton
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, DIRECTOR'S OFFICE.
Brookline, Mass., September 4, 1891.
Dictated.
My dear Professor Bessey:
I have your note of the 31st and I write to say that I hope by all means you will write out your paper on Prunus pumila for Garden and Forest. It is high time that we should endeavor to cast some light on this puzzling genus as it is represented in America.
Why can't you send me some fresh fruit and foliage of Pru nus Americana as it grows with you and from as many different trees as possible? I don't believe that we can find any stable characters in the stones which vary enormously in Prunus always, but I should very much like to see fruit and foliage of the trees as they grow in your section.
Yours faithfully, signature
Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Neb.
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE.
Brookline, Mass., September 26, 1891.
Dictated.
My dear Professor Bessey:
Your box of specimens arrived some days ago and I write to thank you for the trouble you have have taken in sending them.
The Chokecherry appears identical with the plant I have found at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. It looks dif ferent from our eastern Chokecherry and from the Pacific-coast P. de missa but I am at a loss to find characters to distinguish it. If you can give me and further light on this subject, I shall be exceed ingly obliged to you.
Faithfully yours, C. S. Sargent signature
Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Nebraska.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Pomology, Washington, D. C.
September 19, 1891.
Prof. Charles E. Bessey,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of recent date, and your paper is now in the hands of the Secretary of the A. P. S. He regrets as well as I that you cannot be here. Thank ing you for your kindness in sending paper, I am.
Very truly,
H. E. VanDeman (signature)
Pomologist.