ar. 31.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 291 
ure of spending a week with him not long since, and 
hope to visit him again early in the autumn. I shall 
miss him very much. 1am here more favorably situ- 
ated with respect to books than at New York. I hope 
next week to begin again with the “ Flora,” and per- 
haps to finish the Monopetale. 
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
CamMBrRIDGE, 26th July, 1842. 
My pear Docror, —I hope to get settled here, 
and in working order in a week or so; to work at 
Composit all next month, and to occupy a part of 
September and October in collecting the roots and 
seeds of plants, of the White Mountains, of western 
New York, ete., for our Botanic Garden here ; which 
I wish to renovate, to make creditable to the country 
and subservient to the advancement of our favorite 
science. I wish to see growing here all the hardy 
and half-hardy plants of the United States (as well 
as many exotics, etc.), and shall exert myself stren- 
uously for their introduction. The Garden contains 
seven acres ; the trees and shrubs are well grown up; 
we are free from debt, and have a small fund. The 
people and the corporation are anxious that we should 
do something, and I trust will second our efforts. 
Allow me therefore to say that yourself and your 
friend Lindheimer! in Texas would render me, and 
also the cause of botany in this country, the greatest 
aid (which I will take every opportunity of publicly 
acknowledging), if you will send me roots or seeds of 
1 Ferdinand Lindheimer, 1801-1879. Died at New Braunfels, 
Texas. A German. “ An assiduous and excellent collector and a keen 
observer ; his notes, full and discriminating, add not a little to the 
value dda atetion” [A. G.]. 
