such ft stop, which I hdiovo their {j;oo<l nonso will prevent them from doin", I will toll 

 voii lit onco how I think it wonltl l)o prndent to i>rocoo<l. liy wandering; occasiona'ly to 

 new scenes, j'ou may very probably pick up kninvli>d;ro and information tiiat will tend to 

 your usefulness as a public teacher; you can ascertain all tiiat is known in each city 

 where you reside, and gain an amount of sound education that will make jou a 

 phenomenon of the first water in your older age. 



I think it might bo advisable that you should live a year sometime in Boston. Those 

 eastern sag'^s know a great deal, and they are learning every day something to advance 

 your favorite studies ; they are practical people, these Boston and Jloxbury cultivators ; 

 they will treat you well and give you plenty of pears and apples, however they may be 

 inclined to deny you perry and cider. 



Whether six months or a year's residence in the city of New York would form an 

 agreeable or useful variety in your career, I am not now prepared to decide. That city 

 has many enthusiastic lovers of horticulture, who are also your friends, and I have not 

 the least doubt they would give you a warm welcome. Your readers are rapidly in- 

 creasing there, so that arrangements have been perfected to report more particularly 

 than heretofore, their " sayings and doings." 



I think you would perhaps do well after leaving Boston to cross the mountains, give 

 Pittsburg and Cincinnati the benefit of your experience, learn all they know about the 

 raising of grapes and the manufacture of wine, all about the great question of straw- 

 berries; and while you are on this excursion it would be proper to tarry a suitable time in 

 Louisville and St. Louis. There is much to interest there. 



I now come to the most serious part of your journeyings. I want you, if you must 

 ramble, to pass a year at least in California, Oregon, and Washington territory ! Don't be 

 alarmed at the journey. It will soon be a safe one, such as you can conveniently make 

 with your " types " about you, though if your issue is regular, you might have to 

 print one number on a stump on the route, or, say at Mormondom, where they have 

 done but little for any good cause as yet. One number at least I want issued from the 

 grove of big trees ! ! They say the "discoverer" and "describer" of a tree or plant 

 has a right to name it ! But you may turn the tables on that Xo?y6-ying fellow, and 

 take the right upon yourself as the first printer under their branches, and as soon as 

 you do this, I know you will change the name to Washingtonia, and we will support you 

 in it, be assured ! 



While in California I want you to make popular descriptions of all their desirable 

 trees and other productions, and toll us what we shall adopt in our eastern plantations. 

 Oregon and Washington, too, require more delineations in your line, and you will 

 doubtless pick up many valuable plants and trees on your journeys there and back, 

 that have never been popularised. Now all this looks truly formidable to you, does it 

 not? If so, let us see whether we cannot jog on together in Philadelphia, and accom- 

 plish all this great work by means of our numerous correspondents. 



All these things we will talk over together when I get well, and we have a quiet even- 

 ing over a basket of Pears together. I must leave them now to tell you how I got here, 

 and what sort of a place and people I have found. But I had almost forgotten that it is 

 a favorite scheme with me, for you to li\e a year under the tropics, to learn all about 

 the vegetation and cultivation ; as soon as Cuba is acquired, I design a winter cottage 

 there. To Cuba, perhaps, we can go together ; if not, it will be easy to consult the 

 Sandwich Islanders, and ascertain if they have any horticultural secrets to communicate 

 little party of three cheerful invalids, had a world of difficulty to discover from 

 reliable source the best modern route to the "Virginia Springs." They have hith 



