80 PETER COLL1NSON [1736. 



a specimen. My inclination and fondness to natural productions 

 of all kinds, is agreeable to the old proverb : Like the parson s 

 barn, refuses nothing. 



London, August 28th, 1736. 



Dear Friend John Bartram : 



I received thy entertaining letter, the account of the expedi- 

 tion to the Rattlesnake Mountains, which his lordship now has ; so 

 can't in particular answer it. 



It was very well thought to put the small specimen of Cedar 

 with the little cones in the letter. My friend says it is a true 

 Cypress, having both the figure and properties of the common 

 Cypress but the cones exceedingly less. The plant thee gathered 

 last year, near the mountains, has the appearance, in leaves and 

 flower, of Mallows ; but by the particular figure of the seed-vessels, 

 it is called an Abutilon. There is another species that much 

 resembles Mallows, but the seed-vessel being like a pod, it's called 

 Ketmie. 



I did not send thy goods by this ship, because I am in hopes by 

 the next, which sails in two or three weeks, to save the freight. 

 Pray send some acorns of the narrow-leaved Oaks, cones of Tulip 

 Tree, a specimen in flower of the Sugar Maple, and the seed, 

 Flowering Bay cones, and whatever else thou thinks well of ; of 

 timber trees and shrubs, &c. 



I am thy real friend, 



P. Collinson. 



Send more Black Walnuts, Long Walnuts, and both sorts of 

 Hickory, Acorns of all sorts, Sweet Gum, Dog-wood, Red Cedar 

 berries, Allspice, Sassafras ; these will be acceptable to the Duke 

 of Richmond ; and Lord Petre will like some more. Pack all the 

 seed the same way as last year, for they succeed very well, a few 

 excepted. The Acorns and Sweet Gum, and indeed most of all the 

 other seeds are finely come up. The greatest deficiency is in the 

 Poplar or Tulip cones, and the Sugar Tree. Not one of the Sassa- 

 fras, nor Cedar berries, appears, but I presume they lie two years. 



Thy kind neighbour, James Logan, is so good as to order me 

 to buy thee Parkinson's Herbal, if I can have it for 25 shillings. 

 He has shown a very tender regard for thee, in his letter to me. 



