380 JOHN BARTRAM TO [1757. 



Dear Me. Bartram : 



I received your letter dated the third of November last. I have 

 the disagreeable account, that neither of ray letters, wrote last 

 summer, have come to your hands ; for which I am extremely sorry, 

 because there were some queries therein which I should have been 

 glad to be informed about, especially at this time, when I am re- 

 vising the Gardener's Dictionary. One was, to know the charac- 

 ters of the Gale asplenii folio \Comptonid\, which you say is not 

 of the same genus with the Candleberry bush. I find there are 

 authors who have ranged it with the Liquidambar ; but I doubt 

 much of their being right ; so I shall be much obliged to you, if 

 you can send me a perfect specimen, that I may determine its 

 proper genus. * * * Your observations on the 



male and female flowers on the same, and also on different trees, 

 are fully confirmed by many repeated observations and experiments, 

 as you will see in this edition of the Dictionary ; however, I shall 

 not omit mentioning yours with the others. * * *, * 



Pray, to what size does the Balm of Gilead Fir grow, in your 

 country, and what is the soil in which it lasts the longest ? for 

 there is but one place, in England, where the trees live more than 

 ten or twelve years. * * * * 



Pray, let me hear from you, which will greatly oblige your sin- 

 cere friend and servant, 



Philip Miller. 



Chelsea, Feb. 15, 1757. 



JOHN BARTRAM TO PHILIP MILLER. 



June the 20th, 1757. 



Dear Friend Philip Miller : 



I have received thy kind letter of February the 15th, 1757, 

 with six good cones of the Cedar of Lebanon, as also a fine parcel 

 of the numbers of the Gardener's Dictionary, and of the Figures 

 adapted to them ; for which favour I am much obliged to my 

 worthy friend. * * * * 



I have now sent thee, as thee desired, some specimens of the 

 Gale asplenii folio. It differs much from Gale Candleberry Myrtle, 

 and from the Liquidambar, and is, I believe, a new genus. 



The basket thee mentions, with the Norway Maple, had also 



