7. 59.] TO JOHN TORREY. 611 
of the grove, and visit the wondrous Yosemite Valley, 
as yet an arduous journey from San Francisco, but it 
will soon be within easy reach, 
I see that my writing is very bad, and will stop 
short. 
Inclosed are seeds of the two passion-flowers which 
are so good for showing the movements of tendril, 
both the coiling after being touched, and revolution, 
ete. Sow in April in your little conservatory, or in 
hotbed, and you may have good plants for your pur- 
pose in June. The tendrils show off best under a 
temperature of 80° or 90° Fahr. P. acerifolia will 
give you tendrils a foot long, when in full growth. 
I note the uneasiness in England, and the rumors 
of difference in the cabinet,— dangerous times for 
Gladstone’s ministry, but I do hope it will last. 
I suppose your church is all in order, and your 
cares over as to the rebuilding. . 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
November 4, 1870. 
I have to-day a long letter from Bentham, which I 
would send to you, but that it is full of Composit 
queries and statements, which I have soon to attend 
to. What a worker he is, and what a good one! 
At last accounts Decaisne and Brongniart were 
drilling. Rather old sojers, I think! Cosson! had 
dispatched his wife and daughter and granddaughter 
to England, and was siecaestantine? now and then 
by balloon-post! Bentham very well, and working 
hard at Composite for “Genera.” . 
I have an advanced class this eit; and they come 
' Ernest Cosson, aes Wrote the Flora of Algiers and the 
Flora of the Environs of Pari. 
