
          Poppelsdorper Schloss
 Bonn
 2 March 1858


 Dear Sir,


 Many thanks for the plants you
 sent me and which I received a long
 time ago. They were most acceptable.


 Some time ago I sent to Barone
 Flugel at Leipzig a parcel containing
 plants for you, so he forwarded
 to you by [?] of the Smithsonian 
 Institution.


 I take the liberty of asking you
 not to press the plants so much.
 Your plants will if softened by winter
 scarcely acquire again the shape of
 the living state and you know one
 is often obliged to moisten a plant or
 flower or any other part for making it
 fit for [????????]sion.


 I ask you also to be so kind as
 to collect next summer [?] [?]
 [?] Cruciferae for me, common 
 and rare species, and above all
        