568 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1868, 
trees growing which you have in Cuba, ete., Parkin- 
sonia, Schinus molle, Carob, ete. Off up the Nile to- 
morrow. .. . 
In brief, I want to retain you permanently as my 
fidus Achates. You are to have supreme control of 
the Garden. When I get home we will see what can 
be done. You will have to eut off Cuba till then, but 
can work at Flora Cubensis a good deal of the time. 
As far as my means can go, you shall be made as com- 
fortable as possible. 
Arrangements were mado to have H. sweep and 
keep clean the herbarium, and Mrs. L. to serub when 
needed. I fear the herbarium may have been left to 
get dusty and untidy. Please take it in hand; ask L. 
as to getting H., or some one, to sweep regularly ; let 
no dusty work that can be helped be done in the large 
herbarium room. Keep coal-ashes dust from the fire 
from getting in, ete. Spare no expense and pains to 
keep down dust and dirt 
As to dampness in hatte, look out according 
to your judgment. Air occasionally by leaving open 
doors of cabinets when a good fire is on, or a dry 
day out. The north corner of the herbarium is the 
only place that dampness gathers in, except the shelves 
next the floors. Well, do the best you can. Good- 
Wea es 
E TO JOHN TORREY. 
ON BOARD THE STEAMER POONAH 
Marseittes Hargor, December 5, 1868. 
We started from Paris a few days before the rest, 
and before Charles Loring had arrived. We changed 
the cold north for the bland south in one night, going 
from Paris to Avignon, where I had the pleasure of 
showing J. olive groves, old walled towns, and all sorts 
