
          I supposed you would give more [exotics?],
especially of the cultivated trees & shrubs.
You have done them up as extensively as you
thought proper, no doubt, & perhaps, all that
could be expected. I find growing in this
city, Aesculus glabra, & several species of
the subgenus Pavia, from Ohio.

You give
Gleditschia, which is indeed more common, &
so [fine?] for its pinnate, bipinnate & tripinnate
leaves. I would have given
As you have given so few of the cultivated roses,
I conclude you meant to have out most
of the foreigners, Michigan Rose, [Maketta?],
& R. lactea, with single flowers are splendid
here in the gardens & yards. The last, I had
never seen in New England, before I came to the
west.

Your plants are fine, showy, good.
On Carex you have done well, tho' I would
change a little. What a world of them are
coming out. Have you new ones for me,
or do you need any I have?

By the way, I wish to see, C. leiocaipa [leiocarpa?], micropoda,
lagopina, alata, jamesii, Scouleri,
cryptocarpa, Gmelini, microdontia & stylosa.
I designed ere this to see them in your Herbarium,
but poverty & work have prevented. Can you
consistently loan these to me for a few days,
say 15 or 20 days, send by the Express, & I shall 
        