466 DOCTOR MUHLENBERG [1792. 



I am, in Britain, a pretty considerable improver in planting, on 

 a small property I possess ; and am very anxious to procure, and 

 cultivate there, all your timber trees and large shrubs. 



Your brother Moses, I believe, gave you a note of mine, con- 

 taining a requisition from you, of a list of all such as were pro- 

 duced in America, from the largest timber tree to the medium- 

 sized shrubs, with their varieties, giving their classical names, 

 of genera, species, and varieties, according to Linn^us ; and 

 those which you have, or know of, undescribed by him, to be titled 

 by yourself: also their Provincial names. 



I there desired you to mark with a (f) what of them would grow 

 in open air, in Britain ; and with a (*) those you could procure me 

 now the seeds of. 



You will much oblige me, in sending me by letter to your brother 

 Moses, an answer to this, and comply with the above request. 



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Any instruction for the preservation of them, in perfection, to 

 England, would be useful. * * * * 



If you come to Philadelphia, I beg to see you. Your brother 

 Moses will let me know, and I will call there. 



It would be a very great satisfaction to me, on quitting this 

 country, to be assured of a fixed correspondence with you, and a 

 certainty of receiving, yearly, assortments of such seeds as I re- 

 quired. A compensation I would readily make, would you only 

 prescribe the mode, and kind. 



I am much at your service, 



E. S. Fraser, 



Captain Guards. 



dr. muhlenberg* to william bartram. 



Dear Sir : 



With the greatest pleasure imaginable, I received your kind 

 letter, and the dried specimens of some plants new to me. Your 



* Henry Muhlenberg, D.D., was born in New Providence, Montgomery 

 County, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1753. He was educated in the common 

 schools of Philadelphia, and, April 27, 1763, being near ten years of age, sent to 

 Halle, with his two elder brothers, to finish his education in Literature and the 

 Sciences, and to study Theology. 



He returned in 1770; and in 1774, was appointed Assistant Pastor of the 

 Lutheran Church, in Philadelphia. In 1780, he accepted a call from Lancaster ; 



