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some Roses in it. I told my friend, Dr. Bond, if he would take 

 care of them, he should have one half of them, if no others could 

 show a better right to them. The Roses all died ; but two or three 

 of the Maples are alive, as the Doctor tells me, and one or two is 

 enough for me, of a sort. * * * * 



Any sort of foreign trees and shrubs, that will bear our frost, 

 will be acceptable. I have sent thee some specimens, and seeds, 

 in a paper parcel, directed for thee to the care of P. Collinson. 



Pray, my good friend, write often to me, and let me know 

 wherein I can particularly oblige. 



philip miller to john bartram. 



Dear Mr. Bartram : 



I received your letters, the first dated October the 13, and the 

 other November the 12, as also the box of plants. * * 



The specimens you were so good as to send me by Captain Lyon, 

 would have been a treasure, had they arrived safe ; but his ship 

 was taken by the French, so those are all lost : which is a great 

 misfortune at this time, when they would have been of great service 

 to me, in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain 

 doubtful. For, though many of the plants of your country do 

 begin to thrive here, in several gardens, yet they are not come to 

 the state of flowering, or producing their fruit ; for which reason, 

 fair specimens of them are of more value here, than they would be 

 if they could be obtained here : and as my Hortus siccus is now 

 replete with near ten thousand specimens, so I am very solicitous 

 to make it as complete as I can. 



I am afraid the cutting of the great Toxicodendron is perished ; 

 for it lay at the bottom of the box, where there had been wet. I 

 am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can, 

 and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor 

 Linkeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus, with which all the 

 species of Toxicodendron, which I have yet examined, will by no 

 means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct 

 plants, or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the 

 same plant, which, according to his own system, must remove them 

 to a great distance from the Rhus. The species I have, at present, 

 in our garden, are these, viz.: Toxicodendron triphyllum glabrum, 



