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so well to R. venenata that we called it that. Of course we had no flowers. The specimen was found on low ground. That is all I have seen of it.
Yes, we have considerable wild Juglans nigra here. I have made considerable inquiry since receiving your letter as to whether those which I supposed to be wild had not really been planted, and I find that there is much more of it here than I supposed. One man told me that on 40 acres of timber on the river bottom he had not fewer than 100 quite large trees (large enough for fence posts) and there are stumps of many more that have been cut down in an early day.