580 DOCTO MOSES MARSHALL [1799. 



I do not know how your garden may have fared during this truly 

 long and severe winter, which has occasioned the loss of several 

 valuable ones in mine ; amongst which are the Wise Briar [probably 

 Schranhia uneinata, Willd. ; Mimosa Intsia, Walt.] and Hibiscus 

 speciosus, which I got from you. The plants, also, of Podophyllum 

 diphyllum, which I raised last year, from seeds I received from 

 your kindness, have, I fear, been all destroyed. They have not 

 shown themselves above ground this spring. A tree, too (the only 

 one I had of Juglans Pacane, or Illinois Hickory), which I raised 

 twenty-five years ago from seed, is entirely killed. 



In case you have seeds of the kinds named in the list hereto ad- 

 joined, I will thank you exceedingly for a few. Any of them which 

 you have not, at present, I beg you will oblige me with them in 

 the ensuing fall. I am very desirous to know if your Iva, or Hog's 

 Fennel, from Carolina, produces seeds. In that case, I must en- 

 treat you for a few of them. 



You will permit me, also, to remind you of your promise to spare 

 me a plant or two of the White Persimmon, one of Azalea coccinea, 

 and of the sour Calycanthus. If convenient to let me have a plant 

 or two of your Stuartia Malachodendron, and of Magnolia acumi- 

 nata, you will do me a great favour. 



Anything left for me at the toll-gate, on the middle ferry wharf 

 to the care of Mr. Trueman, who constantly attends there, will 

 reach me the same day that it arrives there. 



I beg you will be so good as to present my respects to Mrs. 

 Marshall ; and am, 



With best wishes for your health and happiness, 



Dear sir, 

 Your real friend and servant, 



W. Hamilton. 



I am very desirous to compare a flower of your Stuartia with J. 

 Bartram's ; and will be obliged to you for a good specimen. 



dr. m. marshall to grimwood, hudson, and barrit. 



Gentlemen : 



Yours of the 18th June, I duly received; and in compliance 

 therewith, have herewith sent, per ship George Barclay, Captain 



