
          include references to works of 
 the plants East of the Missisipi [Mississippi]. 


 Now, I think that would be 
 not only inadvisable but 
 decidedly objectionable. In 
 the first place, the vastly
 increased labor would 
 necessitate a much longer time 
 in its preparation, but 
 more than this, it would 
 so enormously increase the 
 size and expense of the 
 proposed work, that I do not 
 think that it could be got 
 out. It would probably 
 increase the bulk and expense 
 at least three fold, and I 
 think more. If you talk with
        