1764.] TO JOHN BARTRAM. 433 



It will be agreeable to you to hear that Mr. Samuel Bard, son 

 of your friend Mr. Bard, of New York, is making most wonderful 

 progress in Botany, and has made a beautiful collection of near 

 four hundred Scots plants ; by which he undoubtedly will gain the 

 annual premium. 



I am, sir, with very great regard, 



Your most obedient servant, 



John Hope, 



Professor of Medicine and Botany, 

 in University of Edinburgh. 

 Edinburgh, 4th November, 1763. 



JOHN BARTRAM TO DR. JOHN HOPE. 



October the 4th. 1764. 



Worthy Friend : 



I have received your proposals by the hands of our dear friend 

 Benjamin ; and since, by a letter from the worthy, humane Dr. 

 Bard, of New York, in which he inserts a paragraph of a letter 

 from his son (whose person and activity I am not a stranger to), 

 wherein he writes to the same effect as thee wrote to Benjamin 

 Franklin, signifying that you had laid a new botanic garden, 

 to be stored with exotics ; that you were forming a laudable ami 

 very necessary plan of storing your bare country with variety of 

 forest trees ; that many gentlemen of rank and fortune had counte- 

 nanced this scheme with an annual subscription, to enable a 

 botanist to make your desired collections ; and that my answer 

 was desired, whether I would undertake to supply your demands, 

 which I consent to do, if your generosity is equal to them ; for the 

 charges of collecting rare vegetables are in proportion to the dis- 

 tance from home, and hazards and dangers in collecting them. 

 I have, in thirty years' travels, acquired a perfect knowledge of 

 most, if not all of the vegetables between New England and 

 Georgia, and from the sea-coast to Lake Ontario and Erie. 



Now what I have not yet discovered, is our new acquisitions in 

 the mountains of Georgia, in East and West Florida, up the Mis- 

 sissippi and the country of the Illinois, Lakes Michigan and Huron, 

 the upper lake. I suppose no great variety there. 



All the plants north of 33 degrees will grow in the open ground 



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