of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall. 97 
which it is not possible for me to gather any great quantities thereof, as 
I wrote to thee, last year. 1 design to get what I can, yearly; but, as 
time, I can’t procure great quantities; and if I depend upon others’ 
ived 
** As our friend Miller seems to question my account of our pines, I 
now tell thee I generally take care to speak truth—even to those that 
I think will bestow no more pains of examination, than to tell me it is 
have upon one branch all the cones of three, four, or five years’ growth, 
at once.”"—pp. 174, 175. 
_ An allusion to Franklin’s discovery occurs in a letter from Col- 
linson, dated January 11th, 1753, while writing of the great dif- 
erence between the climate of England and North America. 
ent. * there 
such a nosegay on Christmas day, would have delighted thee to have 
Seen it. In England, vegetation may be said never to cease; for t 
Spring flowers tread so on the heels of the autumn flowers, that the ring, 
's carried on without intermission.”—p. 189. 
_ Bartram is apt to complain, whenever his letters and commis- 
Sions are not very promptly attended to. ‘This calls forth from 
Collinson the following mild rejoinder. 
Srconp Serres, Vol. IX, No. 25.—Jan., 1850. 
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