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‘“‘If the Rhubarb from London be the Siberian, I have it. I had 
the Perennial Flax, from Livonia. It growed four feet high, and I 
don’t know but fifty stalks to the root ; but the flax was very bese 
and coarse. The flowers are large and blue. It lived many years an 
haat Joun BaARTRAM. 
In a letter written to Dr. Colden,* Dr. Alexander Garden of 
Charleston, S. C., writes in 1754 ‘‘I shall be glad to hear of 
Miss Colden’s improvements, which no doubt increase every day, 
and may we again be surprised with more than a Dacier, even in 
America.”’ : 
Dr. Garden’s letters, both published and unpublished, contain 
many allusions to Jane and there were evidently frequent com- 
munications that passed between them. In 1755 in a letter to 
Mr. Ellis + he writes of Dr. Colden as a great botanist and adds 
with true eighteenth century gallantry that “his lovely daughter 
is greatly master of the Linnean method.” This last spree 
in regard to her personal appearance, if she at all resembled her 
distinguished, but homely father, being more due to the adulatory 
style of the day than to actual fact, and that Jane’s good sense 
resented an excess of flattery is shown in some later letters. # 
In an undated and unlabeled fragment addressed presumably 
to Dr. Colden t he writes : A 
‘‘I have sent you some of the Amorpha a very Curious ann 
peculiar to Carolina—in Linnaeus Species Plantar. there is on fo 
pecies known but I have (another) which I have brought -_ . 
Saluda with me— Miss Colden will be much pleased with it. | 
apearance in a spike. When you favor me witha line please direct to 
Again in a letter dated Charlestown Febry 18, 1755, he writes - 
; Millet 
“I sent you some more of the true Indigo seed and some 
Seed which I am persuaded will both grow very well to 
‘ t Miss 
of Dr. Lister — Give me leave to present my Compliments 10 
Colden and your kind family.’’ 
* Gray. Selections. 
Tt Smith. Correspondence of Linnaeus, 348. 
t Colden MSS. 
