1761.] TO JOHN BARTRAM. 395 



I read with great satisfaction your account of the rarities of 

 North Carolina. 



I examined the tree in my garden, which I formerly took to be 

 a Holly, like Mr. Wragg's ; but I find it quite different, as is 

 likewise that one in Governor Glen's garden, which is of the same 

 kind as mine. It is a new genus, and a beautiful enough Ever- 

 green. 



My close confinement deprives me of that happiness which I 

 would have, in searching our woods. 



Your plants, in my garden, thrive surprisingly well, and they 

 are now ready for your boxes ; one or two are dead. 



As I met lately with Lee on Botany, I bought two copies, one 

 of which I have sent you, and beg you'll accept of it, from 



Your sincere friend, 



Alexander Garden. 



Inclosed you have a letter from Mrs. Logan, which has been 

 with me some time, for want of an opportunity. 



Dear Sir : 



I received your kind letter, with your present of apples and 

 plants, for both which please to accept of my thanks. The apples 

 were extremely good, and have kept much beyond any that ever 

 I had before. You made me very happy in the Newfoundland 

 Spruce, Hemlock Fir, and Kalmia. I wanted these very much, 

 and you gave me fine thriving plants. The others, viz., the 

 Lavender, Sabina, and RJiamnus, with the Fraxinellas, are all 

 growing beautifully, so that I expect to have great pleasure in 

 them all the summer. 



I hope you may have like pleasure in those that I now send you. 

 I need not tell you to plant them out immediately, and in a 

 shady moist place. The box is rather too full ; but the reason is, 

 my not choosing to remove the earth from the roots of the plants 

 as they grow, so that earth taken up with them soon filled up the 

 box. 



Your four Umbrellas are all alive, and very thriving ; so is the 

 great Magnolia. The Atamasco Lilies are all alive ; the Four- 

 Leafed Bignonia, and the fine blue purple flower. 



I could not find the Worm-grass root, so that I am afraid it is 



