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beautiful in flower and health just now, and has a 
great many flowers. 
Yours always, 
SAMUEL CARLISLE 
Str J. EL. Smith to the Bishop of Carlisle. 
My dear Lord, Norwich, March 3, 1822. 
I am steadily at work at my English Flora, and 
hope to get it into the press when I go to town, 
which I cannot spare time to do before the begin- 
ning of May. I find so much to do in this work 
that it will be quite an original Flora, the whole 
subject being revised after so many years expe- 
rience ; and nothing, or worse than nothing, done 
by most writers since I began. To try to fix the 
language, revise all generic and specific characters, 
enrich and correct synonyms, add remarks on natu- 
ral affinities, clear away the mischief done by com- 
pilers,—all this is an Herculean labour. The 
object of the book is botanical determination. 
I am now finally disposing of the grasses, and 
hope I have done some good, as also in the Z77- 
andria Monogynia. Brown is very great in these. 
My present employment makes mea very bad 
correspondent. 
I remain 
Your Lordship’s devoted and most faithful 
J. EK. SmMiru. 
