1793.] TO GRIMWOOD, HUDSON, AND BARRIT. ; 1 



Collett, one box plants, and one small box of Beeds, the bill of 



lading and list of contents inclosed. 



You will find that several things are wanting; which, in part, 

 may be attributed to the great sickness and mortality in Philadel- 

 phia, by the yellow, West India fever: which, in August, S sptem- 

 ber, and October, carried off above four thousand inhabitants. Tl 

 rendered it doubtful, whether there would be any shipping for 

 London this season. We, therefore, in this time of suspense, became 

 careless in procuring some things, especially those at a distant 

 till too late; as the Juniperus and Rhododendron seeds. The 

 Sarracenia purpurea, Helonias asphodeloides, and Cypripedium 

 acaule, natives of New Jersey, at sixty miles distance, the route 

 through Philadelphia, were not procured from the above can.-'': 

 though these I still designed to get: yet, the day on which I had 

 purposed setting out on that errand, there fell a snow eighte< 

 inches in depth. Thus, you see, though the intention to serve you 

 was good, yet it has been in part diverted and defeated, by inti 

 vening casualties. 



The Magnolia auriculata cannot be had, I believe, without going 

 to the place of its native growth ; which is (at least, what I have 

 seen,) in South Carolina, about two hundred miles from the sea- 

 coast. I have but one plant; and Baetram two or three, which 

 he does not incline to part with. There are some, that M. 

 MlCHAUX, a French botanist, procured, and sent from Charleston, 

 a few years since. But he has since been in Canada, and I believe 

 is now in Kentucky. 



Of the Magnolia grandiflora, I have two fine plants, too la 

 to send abroad. I am in nearly the same situation with respect to 

 Stuartia and Fothergilla. There is none to be had nearer than 

 Carolina; where also grows the Sarracenia fiava. 



With respect to new things, when I consider that a KALM and a 

 Clayton have been here, I have little hopes of making discover] 

 yet I find there are many little plants that escaped their view. In 

 a circuitous route of about seven hundred miles, which 1 took tl 

 summer, I have observed several small herbaceous, and two shrubby 

 plants, which I believe are new. One of the shrubs is, perhaps, a 

 Spiraea: the other, the Oily Nut [Pyrularia, Mx., EamiUonia 

 oleifera, Muhl.], of which I formerly sent a specimen to Sir JOSBPH 

 Banks. It grows to the height of six or eight feet ; the flowers 



