220 PETER COLLINSON [1759. 



the Lcucantliemum, or Ox-eye Daisy, overruns some fields. But 

 then it makes a fine show.* For that reason I give it a proper 

 place in my garden, as I love all flowers. 



>K * * * 



I am concerned to hear poor Dr. Witt, my old friend, is blind. 

 A well-spent life, I doubt not, will give him consolation, and illu- 

 minate his darkness. I must conclude, my dear John, against my 

 inclination. 



Thy sincere friend, 



P. COLLINSON. 



London, October 10, 1759. 



I received my dear John's letter of the 10th June. His 

 hodge-podge digests very well with me. I may give him as good 

 as he sends. * * * 



I shall be pleased if the White Campanella is come up. It is a 

 stately, fine plant ; but I have lost it, by some accident, though it 

 is perennial : so send me seed again. 



Ah ! John, I thought thou had been too cunning to be deceived 

 by a Deborah. 



* * * * 



I am much obliged to thee for grafting the Newtown Pippins. 

 What fruit comes from you is excellent. I wish our sun may 

 bring it to the like perfection. We will give them a fair trial in 

 different situations. 



I think thy query needless (if the punch-bowl in the blue rock, 

 was that filled by Governor Keith). Doth not thy own memory 

 confirm it ? It is really a very remarkable instance of the growth 

 of stone, in thy own memory of fifteen years, to be grown up within 

 three inches of its surface. 



It was very curious to observe those stone basins, and the 

 method of their formation. 



At my leisure I may consider more particularly. All thy re- 

 marks deserve my attention : for these wonders in nature would be 

 lost, if it was not for thy happy genius and turn of mind for these 

 discoveries. 



* This Ox-eye Daisy makes rather more of " a fine show" in Eastern Pennsyl- 

 vania than is agreeable to the farmers of the present day (1848). It is one of 

 the most troublesome intruders in our upland meadows and pastures. 



