2so ROBERT POCOCK. 



and Wilmington. I desire you to make me a sub- 

 scriber for a copy." 



This writer is the accomplished author of " The 

 House of Medici," " The Genealogy of the House of 

 Stuart," and many similar works. 



His wife, Mrs. Sarah Noble, was ever sensible of 

 our author's ready assistance in her botanical tastes, 

 and an appreciation of it is shown by many acknow- 

 ledgments, of which the following is an instance : 



" April 28th, 1828. 



" SIR, I feel myself very much obliged by the great 

 trouble you have taken to procure me the lizard 

 orchis, which I prize very highly ; and I assure you 

 they look quite well after their remove. I carefully 

 preserved the chalk rubbish you sent with them, and 

 planted them on the same bed on which you saw the 

 military orchis when you were here last summer. I was 

 very glad of the military one you sent, which I shall 

 send in the autumn to a daughter I have in Stafford- 

 shire, who is really and scientifically a botanist. The 

 other plants I have taken care of, and they all seem 

 likely to grow, and I hope you will see them nourishing 

 when your promised visit takes place in the summer. At 

 present, I am sorry to say, my daughters have not found 

 any of the plants enumerated in your list, but I hope 

 the spring and genial weather will introduce some of 

 them to us ; but I suspect that plants which have not 

 already a place in your collections must be very scarce 

 indeed. Mrs. Cresswell requests I will return her 

 compliments and thanks for your valuable present of 

 shells, which she admires exceedingly, and has in part 

 arranged them in drawers ; the others are carefully put 



