304 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME.  [1843, 
west this year? So Mr. Carey is going to Buffalo. 
Occupation will be the best thing for him; but we 
shall miss him in New York. . . . 
Monday afternoon, 9th May. 
I have a few of Frémont’s plants up from seeds. 
The two pine-trees and the Pyxidanthera were re- 
ceived in good condition, to my great wonderment. 
Pyxidanthera is in full bloom, and a drawing of it 
nearly finished (as well as of Oakesia, about which I 
have some new matters that are curious) by the 
eldest Miss Quincy, whom I have pressed into the 
rvice. ... 
Rhododendron Lapponicum, from the White Moun- 
tains, is just bursting into flower. 1am building rock- 
work, but we get on slowly. All the work of the 
Garden comes together this spring, and all in a heap. 
TO W. J. HOOKER. 
CAMBRIDGE, 30th May, 1843. 
The community here are very liberal and pub- 
eased. They have just given by subscription 
000 for a telescope, etce., for our observatory. 
The college have given me the use of seven or eight 
acres of land lying around the observatory, finely situ- 
ated and diagonally opposite the Botanic Garden, as 
an addition.} 
As soon as our garden begins to increase and pros- 
per, I hope in a year from this we shall attempt (and 
doubtless succeed) in raising the funds for a new con- 
servatory, ee ete. 
1 Dr. Gray imported a quantity of small evergreens from England 
and planted che ground extensively, adding also many other kinds. 
