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29
Salem, N.Y.
1901
July 4
(2)

Our room is in the second story at the back
of the main house and faces due south, over-
looking the beautiful lawn studded with
large elms and rock maples. A pair of red
squirrels live in a hole in one of the maples
and are constantly seen. Beyond the lawn
comes the garden filled with old fashioned
flowers Centaurea cyanus (Bachelor's Button), C.
moschata (Sweet Sultan) white, Eschscholzia californica
(California Poppy), Papaver of different {species}, Lilium of
various sps. white, Paeonia of various kinds, Roses,
Honeysuckles, Fraxinella, Larkspurs, Hollyhocks,
Day lilies [?]. The vegetable garden lies beyond.
Around and beyond the garden is a grass field
sprinkled with trees, a linden, chestnut, two
or three pines introduced sps. cut leaved maples,
and beyond the land slopes to Ondawa on
White Creek bordered by trees & shrubs and
the most attractive being an elm with
five or six large trunks diverging below the surface
of the ground. Seats are built between them.

The lot contains two acres and is about 2 1/2
times as deep as broad. The house sits about
30 feet back from the street. A row of rock
maples is just inside the wooden fence. A
little church adjoins the lot on the east,
and on the west there is an open lot
of some extent with a house on the further
side.

We had a steady rain this evening beginning
after dark. It is still raining. Terrible [?]
in the village [?] to the 4th.