
          I must beg of you to call at 23 Cedar Street and
 get the Boxes. (there are two, the small one being
 only filled with the Dried Specimens. I regret
 that these things cannot be delayed till Captain Graham
 sails again, because he would attend to it for me
 so cheerfully. I hope you, or some of your mercantile
 friends will prevail upon the Captain of the Packet
 to have the Boxes sent soon as possible after the arrival
 in Liverpool. I think they will be induced to do
 this, when it is known, that the warm weather will
 so soon destroy these Green substances.
 I should have told you that I have packaged them
 carefully up in Sphragnum but I have no experience
 how long a box of such things can be kept shut
 up. I purpose however by way of experiment
 to put some in a box and lay them aside for
 a month and see how they will appear by that
 time. this will be some guide to me at
 another time, but I presume there will be no
 difficulty in the early part of winter.


 I have ventured to write a tolerably long letter to
 the Duke all about Willows, if he had the
 same degree of enthusiasm in growing them 
 I have had in studying, and collecting them,
 he will want to hear further from me,
 and if he is fond of varieties I can fill
 his noble Garden with as many variteties [varieties]

        