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Percival Lowell FLAGSTAFF

Please send here three copies of Mars as the Abode of Life—It is good to have such here.

The heat has come at last but duly tempered to celestial spaces.

Judge Doe has just gone back to Prescott for ten days. Yesterday he and I went as far as the confines of the craters toward the Little Colorado in an automobile.

The garden is doing fairly well. Some things—peas and pumpkins—excellent. Some nasturiums.

Thank you for that amusing clipping. They hit the astronomical observations better than they wot, for yesterday morning Mr. Slipher did get a photograph of Saturn and Mars in the same field, a very pretty one.

So the conjunction was immortalized all right.

The nasturiums in one of the flower troughs are fine, those in the garden not so good. The sweet peas seem to have grown tired, but the zinnias are a joy. They fill the farther hot-house bed and are a parterre of color. The hollyhocks are monstrous, 7½ feet tall, like grenadiers in front of the window and fringe most of the house. 90