
          and you one or two of my best specimens.


 I have had a drawing made of a branch
 of the Prunus americana, representing the
 mature fruit.  It is very well done, I think;
 and I have some thoughts of getting it
 engraved & sending it, with some accompanying 
 remarks, to the Lyceum of N. York
 for their Annals, if you think it worth
 while to take that trouble.  It may tend
 to throw some light on, & aid to fix the
 character of, that species of Prunus, which
 seems to me to be in much obscurity.  I
 can find nothing at all satisfactory, in
 Mr. De Candolle's Prodromus, relative to it,
 although I sent him specimens of it
 (without fruit) seven years ago.


 Hoping to hear something specific relative
 to the progress of your second volume,
 I remain,    Dear Sir,
 Yours very truly,
 Wm Darlington


 John Torrey M.D.
 New York

        