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anything about. In some places it is quite long, but then it doesnt make the ground look green, far away from the river bottoms it grows in mouthsfull here

and there sand, and cacti filling 

the intervening space. At the foot of the Mountains, 15 miles away, there is a good deal of vegetation and I should think that there everything was a month or six weeks ahead of Racine. We have spinach grown out of doors, and pie plant two weeks since, two feet long. But it is the general absence of anything to indicate the change of seasons which makes me feel strange. I sat out on the porch the other evening until ten o clock without feeling cold- and yet in the middle of the day I have felt no inconvenience from the heavy clothing I bought- wearing flannel drawers and the woolen shirts you made. When I came, I spoke of the delightful temperature of the atmosphere. "We have had it just like this nearly three months" everybody said.