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esteem and affection of the author of the English 
- Flora. 
Our friend Professor Martyn told me that in the 
compilation of Miller's Gardener’s Dictionary he 
wrote 20,000 sheets of paper. I know not how 
many sheets of paper the English Flora has occa- 
sioned you to write, neither can I calculate how 
many volumes of books you must have examined. 
Glad as I should be to live to see the remaining vo- 
lumes of the Flora, yet I live in fear that you should 
hurt your health by the confinement and labour 
it must occasion you; I will allow in some cases 
“ Labor ipse voluptas,’ but I cannot think the con- 
finement and labour of sending forth a finished 
Flora of five volumes is anything less than an ar- 
duous undertaking. 
I have been looking into a few leaves of the Rev. 
T.M. Harris’s, D.D. book on the Natural History of 
the Bible. He takes notice ofthe lilies of the field, 
and quotes you for their being the 4maryllis lutea. 
Yours most gratefully and affectionately, 
T. G. CuLium. 
Sir J. E. Smith to Mrs. Corrie. 
My dear Mrs. Corrie, Norwich, March 21, 1824. 
I have, for a long time past, had so much employ- 
ment for my pen, that except afew urgent letters of 
mere necessity or business, I have scarcely written 
one. I am still as busy at the sequel of my Flora, 
of which I hope you have received the first and se- 
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