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high (a plant and seeds) ; seeds only on the lateral shoot. The other species 

 is fine but by no means equal to the former. The soil was light and dry. 

 In the centre walk of the garden a row of the one on one side and of the 

 other on the other side had a fine efiect. Two specimens of Indian Com. 

 I regret rfiuch to mention my disappointment of the apples. He was not 

 able to leave his room, indeed he was so ill before I left that to appear- 

 ance he coidd not live long. I obtained all that was in the house, 

 conasting of about eight or nine varieties and only two or three of each, 

 with two bottles of cider seven years old — one made from Wine-sop, one 

 from Virginian crab-apple : this is a present for Thos. A. Knight and Jos. 

 Sabine Esqs., from Will. Coxe. I got also a few seeds of ornamental 

 plants. I received from him and family all the attention they could 

 give under the present circumstances. I had not time to call on Mr. 

 Smith, and as I saw all the trees sent ofE before going to Philadelphia, 

 left Burlington at 2 o'clock in the afternoon by steamboat for Borden- 

 town, and then by stage to South Amboy. The night was exceedingly 

 dark and rainy ; the coach broke down at 11 o'clock at night, and having 

 to stop two hours in repairing, got to South Amboy at 4 o'clock on 

 Wednesday morning. This is a specimen of great speed — twenty-nine 

 miles in thirteen hours. 



Thursday, November 6tA.— Left Amboy at 5 o'clock in the morning 

 and got to New York at 11. Employed getting the trees to Mr. Hogg's 

 and ordered some boxes for packing them in. 



November 7jA.— Finished taking up Mr. Floy's trees. 



November 8i^.— Wrote to Joseph Sabine, Esq., and at packing in the 

 afternoon. 



Sunday, November 9«A.— As usual on Sundays took breakfast at 

 Dr. Hosack's ; packed up some seeds, &c., in the forenoon, and went to 

 Mr, Hogg's in the evening. 



Monday and Tuesday, November IQth and llife.— Being unsuccessful 

 with Sarraoenia by the great rain a fortnight since, in company with 

 Mr. Hogg we again crossed the Kiver Hudson. We hired a car, and 

 after driving and walking alternately, reached the spot. The swamp, 

 as mentioned before, is large. We made an attempt to get over from 

 the north side, but were obhged to return. Mr, Hogg led the way, when 

 suddenly he went down to the middle in mud. On the south side 

 we were more successful; after some di£6.culty and aU besmeared with 

 filth, reached them, having to carry them two miles through the swamp. 

 Darkness put a stop to our pursuit before we could get enough plants. 

 In the evening we sat by the fireside talking of our day's proceedings. We 

 have now set out again. By 10 o'clock on Tuesday we had an abundance 

 of plants and proceeded after something else. On a spot west of Hoboken 

 swamp we found Lycopodium dendroideum ; the soil was dry sandy peat. In- 

 termingled with it, Adiantum pedatum ; on the left, in the hollow where the 

 soil was a little damp, another species of Lycopodium, a creeping one ; a few 

 ferns in wet places on the outskirts of the woods, but being killed by the frost 

 cannot say what they are. In the bustle of our proceedings lost the whip, 

 for which the man extorted two dollars in consequence of it being a 



