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Black two-ring notebook containing blue-lined paper, sixteen total pages with Violetta White Delafield's pencil-written inventory of Montgomery Place's flora and fauna, other pages blank: inventory categories include Trees, Conifers, Flowers, Ferns,…

85 / 1. Pileus smooth, dry, silvery [sic] green- somewhat / uneven + fibrillous firm, becoming dry + shriveled / 2. Gills close, narrow, white heterophyllous, slightly / decurrent turning dingy yellowish white with age. / 3. Spores white / 4. Stem,…

Growing in moist woods, among / Cinamon [sic] ferns. & under swamp maples- / Taste, gluy [sic] sweet. / Surface of Pileus very viscid, sticky- / convex golden yellow turning dark / brown with age- / turning tawny- / Pore surface- light straw color ^…

Black and white framed photographic portrait bust of Violetta White Delafield.

Gilson’s deed of purchase for Barrytown nursery, 1874. (2 of 2)

Gilson’s deed of purchase for Barrytown nursery, 1874. (1 of 2)

"This Indenture made this 21th day of May A.D. 1874,
Between . . . the heirs at law of Sarah Martin . . . and
Alexander Gilson . . . in consideration of Two Thousand
Dollars…