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and tliree cartloads of good soil from a cultivated field taken in and the 

 tree-plant given a little decayed vegetable matter as a mamue. He lays 

 its roots totally bare during the winter months. I put the above fruit 

 in spirits. 



Saturday, August 16«A.— Wrote to England early in the morning, and 

 then went to Staten Island and crossed the bay for Long Island. They 

 attend little to any cabbage, broccoli, and beet — carrots are objects of 

 more af^iention. 



Sunday, August 17iA.— After attending divine service in the forenoon, 

 I dined with Dr. Hosack and spent the evening at his house. 



Monday, ISth.—l was engaged rectifying my lists, &c. 



Tuesday, August l^th.—lu company with Mr. Hogg we went on board 

 a steam packet to New Brunswick, thence by coach to Trenton by 

 Kingston, Princeton, Lawrenceville. The whole country appeared well 

 cultivated ; of a rich hght soil ; for upwards of ten miles it appeared a 

 garden. Slept at Trenton. 



Wednesday, August iOth.—'Siom. Trenton to Burlington, went by 

 steamer, distance fifteen miles. I made a point of calling on W. Coxe, 

 , Esq., who used me very hospitably. I saw his vast and extensive 

 orchards. He gave me such fine descriptions, &c., it was quite a new 

 place. His trees are all in fine health, and he was just on the eve of 

 commencing his cider harvest ; he has in his garden a choice selection of 

 peaches, apples, pears, &c. He gave me to understand that he would 

 send the Society a collection of keeping fruit in the fall, after his checkiag 

 ofi what he considered to be new, and recommended me to deal with a 

 Mr. Smith, with whom at one time he was in company. I took my 

 departure for the inn. AU his family were poorly, except one of his 

 daughters. 



Thursday, August 2\st. — Four miles east of Burlington on the pine 

 barrens were Epigaea repens, Pyrola two species, Ruhus cuneifoUus, two 

 EwpJiorbia marylandica [sic], and two species more, Asclepias tuherosa 

 and A. syriaca, in Mr. Coxe's field ; Rhexia virginica, Monarda punctata, 

 Sarracenia, Laurus Sassafras,^ &c. At 5 o'clock p.m. left Burlington by 

 steamboat and arrived at Philadelphia 7 evening. 



Friday, August 22n<i!.— After waiting on E. Collins, Esq., a friend of Dr. 

 Hosack's, who is a botanist of distinction in that quarter, who recommended 

 me to go to see the place of the venerable John Bartram, and Mr. Lisle of 

 Woodlands, Henry Pratt, Esq., and the principal nurseries. I am truly 

 obliged to this gentleman for his Mnd attention and his wiUingness to 

 forward the views of the Society. I called on Mr. Will Dick, janitor of the 

 university, who also used me kindly. The garden he has established partly 

 on his own account ; ofEers to aid me by presenting Euphorbia variegata * 

 from Arkansas ; Donia ciliata," figured in Hooker, ' Exot. Fl.' i. (1823) t. 45, 

 a most singular plant belongiag to the natural order Compositae * ; root 



^ Sassafras officinale, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. p. 171. 



E. marginata, Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. p. 63. 



Aplopappus eiliatus, A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. i. ii. p. 125. 

 * In MS., CiMurbitaceaR instead of Compositae, an error probably arising from 

 comparing the root of the Donia with that of Bryonia dioica. 



