562 SIR JOSEPH BANKS [1789. 



P.S. If the Gfinseng is to plant, as I expect it is, it should be 

 planted in a shady situation, and in a rich black mould, or soil: 

 as I have experienced it will not bear our summer heat, without 

 Jbeing shaded, especially in the middle of the day. 



But your country not being so hot, perhaps it may bear the heat 

 of the sun with you. However, I should advise a shady situation 

 for it, and rich ground. And if any more should be wanted, per- 

 haps it might be procured some small matter reasonabler than this 

 sent, my nephew having found, in his route, where it grows pretty 

 plenty. 



SIR JOSEPH BANKS TO H. MARSHALL. 



Soho Square, May 6, 1789. 



Sir: 



Your box of plants was received safe, and to all appearance in 

 good order. 



I have no doubt that, as the spring advances, we shall find in it 

 several plants which will enrich our botanical knowledge. The 

 sum of two guineas, the price your letter fixed upon them, was 

 readily paid to Mr. Charles Eddy, on your account. 



The Franklinia is, as you conjecture, a species of Grordonia. A 

 drawing of that plant, sent here by Mr. Bartram to Mr. Barclay, 

 has been compared with specimens ; so that no doubt now can re- 

 main on that subject. 



Mr. Aiton* has desired me to request from you a similar box of 

 plants, by the next fall, for his Majesty's garden, where those of 

 the last box are already planted ; and has given me the under- 

 written list of plants more particularly wanted there : 



Ascyrum villosum. Kuhnia eupatorioides. 



A hypericoides. Hedysarum, all the species. 



Polygala, all the species. Helonias, ditto. 



Portulaca. Aster, \ 



Viola, all the species. Solidayo, \ any curious species. 



Anemone thalictroides. Eupatorium, ) 



Martaeon Lilies, Grasses, 1 x . , , 



_ J- more particularly. 



Epigaea repens. Ferns, J 



*'Widliam Aiton was " Gardener to His Majesty," and author of the " Hortus 

 Kewensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at 

 Kew," an interesting and useful work at that period ; being published the same 

 year in which this letter is dated. A second edition was published in 1810-13, 

 under the supervision of that "facile Princeps Botanicorum" Robert Brown. 



