ET, 23.] TO HIS FATHER. 47 
early in September. If you meet with Panicum 
agrostoides, Poa obtusa Muhl., and Poa eragrostis, I 
shall be much obliged if you will secure for me the 
needful quantity of specimens. I am making arrange- 
ments for securing the bulbs, tubers, and seeds of the 
rarer plants for Lehmann. I shall take great pleasure 
in complying with your desire of securing as many as 
possible for your little garden. Bulbs and tubers I 
take up after flowering, and place in dry sand. Can 
you give some instructions as to the best manner of 
preserving other perennial roots, such as Asters, ete. ? 
f you will give me the necessary instructions, I 
promise you to spare no exertions to carry them into 
I have nearly finished De Candolle’s “ Théorie Elé- 
mentaire.” I have devoured it like a novel. It ought 
to be translated, that it may be more generally read 
in this country, where something of the kind is much 
needed. By the way, as soon as you receive Lindley’s 
new elementary work, I hope you will set about pre- 
paring an American edition. 
This immediate neighborhood is very poor for bota- 
nizing. Excepting Cyperacer, it furnishes nothing 
of interest. I shall soon, however, make more distant 
excursions, so as to include Oneida Lake and the 
‘pine plains.” When I return I shall bring with 
me a huge bundle of plants, which will show that I 
have not been idle. 
TO HIS FATHER. 
November 21, 1834. 
The class at the Medical College is very small, so 
that I have no salary here at present. But I have a 
comfortable and pleasant home, and fine opportunities 
