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foundation there is a nursery of 1,500,000 plants 

 begun this spring, which will I hope in a few years 

 give the means to plant four fifths of Holstein, 

 which after my example will perhaps some years 

 hence have diffused the spirit of planting. 



Yes, my dear Sir, I have received your valuable 

 volume of Tracts relating to natural history, and also 

 the pamphlet you sent me by Mr. Clark ; but I will 

 be obliged to you for a syllabus of your Botanical 

 Lectures. However distant my present pursuits are 

 from the track of this lovely science, I hope sooner 

 or later to wander them over again, and would be 

 sorry not to be guided by you. The exercise of 

 practical agriculture and the promotion of this use- 

 ful knowledge, together with our Poor Institute, 

 take up all my leisure. I shall certainly revisit En- 

 gland as soon as Europe shall be restored to peace. 

 You know, my dear Sir, that you stand foremost 

 amongst the friends whom I shall feel myself happy 

 to meet again. 



Ever your9, 



Voght. 



From Professor Williams. 



Dear Sir, Oxford, Aug. 1, 1798. 



I passed a short time this morning in the Botanic 

 Garden with Mrs. Kett*. At this season of the year 

 a botanist is of rare occurrence in Oxford. It is 

 singular on any occasion to meet a lady who is 

 really conversant with plants. I am obliged to you 



* Of Seething Hall, Norfolk. 



