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I think Dr. if you and I were personally
acquainted, we should be fast friends.
I like the way you write. I read all your
articles with avidity, and feel always
after reading them, that I am wiser and
better I always wish that it was in my
power to do you a favor - that I could
carry some new idea myself instead
of drawing on you always for information.
But so it is, I am neither a botanist
or chemist, consequently all I know
of plants is from observation & have
not had much of that [illegible] within
the last five or six years: yet have the
best [illegible] in Ottawa.

There is so little of good taste in this
county, that no wonder boys want to
go away from home as soon as possible.
One might start from Ottawa and ride
in any direction twenty miles and not
see one really cheerful, comfortable
home, not one place that would attract