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about the process of impregnation and the early de- 
velopment of embryo, which I am accumulating, as 
much as I can, for future use. Pray tell Dr. Perrine 
that the gardeners and botanists here insist by accla- 
mation almost that there is no such thing as acclima- 
tion in the vegetable kingdom. 
What a pickle the Laienn Ascyrum is in! I wish 
I had room to tell you. 
TO MRS. TORREY. 
Tuesday morning, two o’clock A. m., March 14, 1859. 
I have just finished packing up, being about to start 
for Boulogne in steamboat at nine o’clock this morning, 
and I must now hastily close my letters. This, or 
rather yesterday, has been a busy day with me. I 
started in the morning to have a look at a few more 
things of Pursh’s at Lambert’s, but he kept me longer 
than I liked. He found somewhere a small parcel of 
plants collected by Eschscholz in Kotzebue’s voyage, 
who sent them to Lambert. Lambert gave me all the 
North American ones, few to be sure, but interesting. 
From Lambert’s I returned by way of the Horticul- 
tural Society, to bid good-by to Lindley and Bentham, 
but the latter insists upon coming up in the morning 
to my lodgings to see me off. I have made a fortu- 
nate acquisition for him. He told me he saw, a few 
days ago, at an auction some copies of Richard’s fine 
work on the Conifers, but an engagement at the time 
prevented him from staying to buy a copy of the work 
for himself, which he imagined would be sold cheap. 
Mr. Putnam found out who bought up these copies, 
and obtained one at nearly the price at which they were 
sold. I shall have the pleasure of presenting it to 
Bentham this morning when he calls. I went to the 
