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Notes.—It will be observed that most of the trees and plants named are not found east of the Mississippi. In the flowers, yellow will be found to be a prevailing colour. There are many poisonous plants and shrubs, especially a shrub-oak; and care must be taken to wear gloves when collecting specimens. The guides know little of botany; and the popular names vary so in different localities, that it is hard work to identify the plants.
I trust my readers will not lose their collections as I did. I had brought together many specimens, and had arranged them very carefully in the bureau in my room at the hotel, placing them nicely for preservation. One day soon after, when going to my room, I met the chambermaid on the stairs, and she said: ‘I gave your room a good cleaning to-day, sir; and I took all the dry leaves and things out of your bureau.’ ‘Where are they?’ I exclaimed, a feeling of pain coming over me. ‘I threw, them away, sir!’ I tried to explain to her their value to me; but no doubt that chambermaid is to-day at a loss to know why ‘the man in No. —’ filled up his bureau ‘with dry leaves and things.’
The attempts to introduce California plants into the gardens East of the Rocky Mountains have been for the most part failures; and, even in flower-houses, they do not seem to thrive.
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