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to you, that might be acceptable, and am glad of this opportunity 

 of doing it. I am desired to get a parcel of seeds for the Duke of 

 Argyle, and know of none whom I would sooner depend upon than 

 you, to do it. He would have a large quantity, but fears the 

 season may be too far advanced, before you receive this, to collect 

 them, and so desires you would send as many as you can afford for 

 five pounds. If they please, I doubt not but he will desire more 

 as well as my Lord Bute, who gave me this commission. They 

 desire chiefly flowering trees and shrubs. Some of the new Mag- 

 nolia, if you can get it ; and particularly some of the White Cedar, 

 which I told them you would be sure to send. 



Mr. Collinson tells me he has sent for seven such parcels this 

 year, already ; so I doubt not but you ma} r have some that are 

 curious, collected. He [the Duke] has many of the common 

 things already, and wants chiefly the PapawTree, or Anona, the two 

 new Ohamcerhododendrons, Sugar Tree, Orange Apocynum [Ascle- 

 pias tuberosa, L.], Scarlet Spiraea, Euonymus scandens [Celas- 

 trus], the large Ketmia, with flowers like Cotton, Leonurus [?], or 

 Oswego Tea [evidently a mistake, Leonurus for Monarda didyma~\, 

 the new Pines, which I think you said you had seen ; he has all the 

 common sorts. 



I am glad to hear that your industry this way is like to be of 

 some service to you. I hope it may be in my way to promote it, 

 which you may depend upon. This is the only way I ever knew it 

 of any service to anybody ; for Botany is at a very low ebb in 

 England, since the death of Lord Petre. Dr. Dillenius is like- 

 wise dead. I should be glad to hear from you, and what new 

 plants you find. 



I have wrote a long letter to Mr. Franklin, which I hope he 

 will receive, and desired a specimen of the water that turns iron to 

 copper, and the earth, salts, &c, about it, which I would analyze : 

 and should be glad of an account of its effects with you, and the 

 way of operating with it there, to see if it would do the same here. 

 I likewise desired some specimens (and a quantity of them), of the 

 blue stones in your Yellow Springs, which pray tell him of, if mine 

 to him should miscarry. I fancy it may be more in your way than 

 his to procure them, by which you would highly oblige me. 



Remember me particularly to him, and your good spouse, and 

 Dr. Bond. I have nothing worth Avhile to say to them, else should 

 not fail to do it. 



