
          I sent you a small parcel, some months
 ago, with the same object.  I hope you may
 have found time to determine their names, -
 as well as those I left with you, last fall.
 When I learn that you have pronounced
 your opinion on them all, I will take the
 earliest opportunity to send for them, & get
 them out of your way.


      I am beginning to look for your second
 number of the N.A. Flora.  I sincerely hope
 you may have ample health, leisure and
 encouragement, to push on with it.  It is
 the very thing we have been longing for, during
 the last 20 years.


      I cannot but be flattered
 with the bare inquiry about my attempting
 to work out a family, for your flora; and
 do sincerely wish I were competent to aid you
 in that way.  But I know I could not be of
 any essential service; & therefore must beg to
 be excused from exposing my incapacity.
 Possibly, if I were under your eye, for a time,
 I might be instructed so as to fall in with
 your method & manner: - but, here, & alone,
 I should certainly not be able to do any
 thing that would save you any material
 labor - or facilitate your operations.  Dr. Gray,
 having been with you so long, can no doubt do much;
 & to him & you (& Mr. Nuttall, for his novelties,) we must look
        