414 MARTHA LOGAN [1760. 



MARTHA LOGAN* TO JOHN BARTRAM. 



Sir: 



I have, last week, received both your favours, with the seeds 

 therein mentioned, for which am much obliged ; and wish you had 

 been so kind to let me know what we have that would have been 

 most acceptable to you ; but, as you did not, have sent, inclosed, 

 the little bag, which contains some variety, but few of a kind (as 

 you requested). The middle division is flowering shrubs, trees, 

 and vines, which we esteem, and wish they may be new to you. 



I doubt not you have many things which I should be glad of. 

 ***** 



I do again assure you of the truth of my assertion, relating to 

 the striped Stock Gillyflowers. If the seed should produce you 

 flowers of a plain red, I beg you'd not be discouraged, but make a 

 second trial the next season ; by which I am persuaded you will 

 be convinced of the truth. 



The seeds I sent you, by the name of Virgin Stock, was of the 

 same little flower you so much admired in my garden, and hope 

 they have succeeded with you ; but have again sent a few more, 

 for fear of any accidents ; and am, with greatest sincerity, sir, 

 Your assured friend and humble servant, 



Martha Logan. 



Charleston, 20 December, 1760. 

 My best wishes attend your family. 



Sir : 



I wrote you, some little time since, requesting your instructions 

 in my flower garden, which I hope you will grant. 



I make no doubt you have received the seeds I sent by Doctor 

 Garden's conveyance, and wish they may succeed to the uttermost 

 of your desires ; and if it is in my power to oblige you with any- 



* Martha Logan, a great florist, was the daughter of Robert Daniel, of South 

 Carolina. In her fifteenth year she married George Logan ; and died in 1779, 

 aged seventy-seven. At the age of seventy, she wrote a treatise on gardening. 

 Blake's Biogr. Dictionary. 



