304 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. [1843, 



west this year? So Mr. Carey is going to Buffalo. 

 Occupation will be the best thing for him ; but we 

 shall miss him in New York. . . . 



Monday afternoon, 9th May. 



I have a few of Fremont's plants up from seeds. 

 The two pine-trees and the Pyxidanthera were re- 

 ceived in good condition, to my great wonderment. 

 Pyxidanthera is in full bloom, and a drawing of it 

 nearly finished (as well as of Oakesia, about which I 

 have some new matters that are curious) by the 

 eldest Miss Quincy, whom I have pressed into the 

 service. . . . 



Rhododendron Lapponicum, from the White Moun- 

 tains, is just bursting into flower. I am building rock- 

 work, but we get on slowly. All the work of the 

 Garden conies together this spring, and all in a heap. 



TO W. J. HOOKER. 



CAMBRIDGE, 30th May, 1843. 



. . . The community here are very liberal and pub- 

 lic-spirited. They have just given by subscription 

 $25,000 for a telescope, etc., for our observatory. 

 The college have given me the use of seven or eight 

 acres of land lying around the observatory, finely situ- 

 ated and diagonally opposite the Botanic Garden, as 

 an addition. 1 



As soon as our garden begins to increase and pros- 

 per, I hope in a year from this we shall attempt (and 

 doubtless succeed) in raising the funds for a new con- 

 servatory, hot-house, etc. 



1 Dr. Gray imported a quantity of small evergreens from England 

 and planted the ground extensively, adding also many other kinds. 



