1799.] TO HUMPHRY MARSHALL. 579 



The W QandB, May 8d, 17 



Dear Sir : 



Having been unwell and confined with the gout, for several 

 weeks past, I have not until this time been able to comply with my 



promise of sending you a Tea Tr, 



I now take the opportunity of forwarding you, by the Btage, a 

 Very healthy one, as well as several of other kinds, which I bell 

 are not already in your collection; together with a small parcel of 

 seeds: the whole of which will, I natter myself, prove acceptable 

 to you. 



Should anything else, in my possession, occur to you as a de- 

 sirable addition to the variety in your garden, I beg you will in- 

 form me. You may be assured, whatever it is, if I have two of the 

 kind, you will be welcome to one. Sensible as I am of your kind- 

 ness and friendship to me, on all occasions, you have a right, and 

 may freely command every service in my power. 



Doctor Parke informs me you were lately in Philadelphia. 

 Had it been convenient to you to call at the Woodlands, I should 

 have had great pleasure in seeing you. I have not heard of Dr. 

 Marshall's having been in this neighbourhood since I was last at 

 Bradford. From the pressing invitation I gave him, I am willing 

 to hope that, in case of his coming to town, he will not forget to 

 give me a call. I beg you will present him with my best respects, 

 and request of him to give me a line of information, as to the 

 Menziesia ferruginea, particularly of its vulgar name, if it has 

 one, where it grows, if he knows the name of any person in : 

 neighbourhood, who is acquainted with it, so as to direct or show- 

 it to any one who may go to look after it. 



I intend, next month, to go to Lancaster; and if convenient to 

 me, when there, to spare my George, I have thoughts of sending 

 him to Redstone, for the Menziesia, and Podophyllum diphyllum. 

 If Dr. Marshall knows of any curious and uncommon plan 

 growing in the neighbourhood with those I have mentioned, I will 

 be obliged to him to give me any intelligence by which he ma; 

 suppose they can be found: or, if he knows any person or p< 

 at Redstone, or Fort Pitt, who are curious in plants, of whom any 

 questions on the subject may be asked, he cannot do me a greater 

 service than by giving me their names and place of abode. 



