1758.] TO JOHN BART RAM. 389 



their seeds. The latter is very inconstant in all the poiniferous 



fruits. Apples and Pears have sometimes five, at others, six or 



seven seeds in each ; so that to make that a character of the genus 



would be very absurd. Doctor Linx^us has joined so many 



genera together, as occasions confusion. The Apple and Pear are 



undoubtedly of different genera. They 'will not take upon each 



other, either by budding or grafting [?] ; and it is well known, from 



experience, that all trees of the same genus will grow upon each 



other. 



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I want much to see a specimen of a female plant of the Crale 

 Asplenii folio \_(Jomptonid\. I have only yet seen the male with 

 its catkins, for we have not any female plants here, so far as I can 

 learn ; and I am in great doubt about the character of it. If you 

 have any of the female plants, and will be so good as to send me a 

 plant or two, as also a dried specimen, you will much oblige me. 



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The method in which I was under a necessity of publishing the 

 Gardener's Dictionary, has in some measure prevented my insert- 

 ing several new plants, which have come to my hands after the 

 initial letters of their titles were passed over. I shall be obliged 

 to add an Appendix to it, in which I propose to take notice of as 

 many plants as shall come to my knowledge : so that, whatever 

 you are so good as to send to me, shall be gratefully therein men- 

 tioned. I am your obedient humble servant, 



Philip Miller. 



Chelsea, Aug. 28, 1758. 



Dear Mr. Bartram : 



I was this day favoured with your letter, dated 28th of Septem- 

 ber last, by which I am informed you have not received any letter 

 from me since that bearing date of the 30th of May last. I wrote 

 to you the 16th of July, to acknowledge the receipt of the speci- 

 mens which you was so good as to send me in Mr. Collinson's 

 box, and to return you my thanks for them : and as you was so 

 kind as to offer me plants of those sorts which you had in your 

 garden, so I most earnestly wish to have of them, as I believe there 

 are some new genera amongst them. The plant with a long spike 

 of white flowers, and grass leaves, appears to me to be an Ornitho- 



