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 25. Thelma Peters, Lemon City: Pioneering on Biscayne Bay
1850-1925 (Miami: Banyan Books, Inc., 1980), 252. According to
Morris McLemore, a columnist for the Miami Daily News, the house
contained three stories: "The house has no rooms save Simpson's
laboratory on the ground floor. Apparently the scientist didn't
altogether trust the bay that lay a few hundred feet east of his home.
The main family rooms and the kitchen are on the second floor, and
the bedrooms at the top." See Morris McLemore, "McLemore's
Miami," Miami Daily News, November 30, 1961, 8F.
 26. Simpson, Florida Wild Life, 119.
 27. Peters, Lemon City, 253.
 28. Smiley, "Strange House Built by Noted Naturalist."
 29. David Fairchild, The World Was My Garden (Miami: Banyan
Books, 1982), 401.
 30. Allen H. Andrews,A Yank Pioneer in Florida (Jacksonville: Douglas
Printing Company, 1950), 270.
 31. Smiley, "Strange House Built by Noted Naturalist."
 32. Ibid.
 33. Baird, "Man Who Helped Create."
 34. Smiley, "Strange House Built by Noted Naturalist."
 35. Helen Muir, Miami USA (New York: Henry Holt and Co.,
1953), 186-87.
 36. Simpson to Minnie Jay Kent, Coconut Grove, May 29, 1929,
Simpson file (Box 18), Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, Fla.
 37. Simpson Park archives.
 38. P. H. Dorsett to Simpson, Washington, D.C., September 5, 1914,
Simpson file, Special Collections, Otto G. Richter Library, University
of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
 39. Simpson to Mrs. Sarah G. H. Jones, May 1, 1927, Simpson file (Box
18), Historical Museum of Southern Florida archives.
 40. Baird, "Man Who Helped Create."
 41. Ibid.
 42. Simpson, Ornamental Gardening in Florida, XIII.
 43. Ibid, 3.
 44. Charles Torrey Simpson, In Lower Florida Wilds (New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), 300.
 45. Review of n Lower Florida Wilds, Simpson file (Box 18),Historical
Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, Fla.
 46. Thomas Barbour, That Vanishing Eden (Boston: Little, Brown and
Co., 1946), 200.