408 JOHN CLAYTON [1761. 



better than sending by the shallop to Colonel Hunter's, as was 

 concluded upon, when I had the pleasure of your company here. 



I presume there will be no occasion to put you in mind of the 

 plant you were so kind to promise me ; yet I can't forbear men- 

 tioning that the Meadia, Arbor Vitas, and Northern Spruce Fir, 

 were to be among 'em. I shall be always very ready to retaliate 

 your favours, and am, dear sir, your sincere friend and most humble 

 servant, 



John Clayton. 



Dear Friend : 



I have sent you, inclosed, some seed of a new plant, which I 

 presume is a stranger in your northern part of the world. Indeed, 

 it grows here only in the southern parts of the colony. I have it 

 in my garden, but have quite forgot whether I showed it to you, 

 when I had the great favour of your company. If I did, I believe 

 I told you that it was to be called Amsonia, after a doctor, here ; 

 but I think the name inscribed upon the inclosed more proper, as 

 it answers to the particular form of its seed. 



I intend to send you some seed of our thorny Sensitive Plant, 

 \_Schrankia f] by the first opportunity that oifers, after it is ripe ; 

 And remain, dear sir, your sincere friend 



And most humble servant, 



John Clayton. 



September 1st, 1760. 



February the 23d, 1761. 



Dear Friend : 



I received your agreeable letter of the 16th of November last, 

 about a month ago, and am very much obliged to you for the seed 

 therein inclosed. It was a long time in coming, and had passed 

 through various hands, insomuch that the folds were quite worn 

 out ; and some person or other had taken out the paper with the 

 striped Stock July flower seed ; the loss of which I regret very 

 much, as it is so great a curiosity. I was a little doubtful of my 

 Pyrethrum seed ; but, as you guess, it was really the very best I 

 had. If, hereafter, I should happen to save any better, you may 

 depend upon participating with me in that, as well as in the others 

 you mention in the letter ; for, at present, I have not one grain of 

 the seed of Stoechas, nor of the Tetragonotheca, nor StapTmagria. 



