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tions for a thorough exploration of Florida, in connection 
with his friend Dr. Chapman, he was lost at sea, with his 
wife and all his children, in the foundering of the ill-fated 
** Home,” between New York and Charleston. 
I have been told that two seedling Torreyas which Mr. 
Croom planted near his house at Quincy, and which had 
become stately trees, have recently been demolished by the 
present proprietor; also that a tree of Mr. Croom’s plant- 
ing still flourishes in the grounds of the state-house at Talla- 
hassee. 
