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Botanic Garden & Nursery
Newburgh 28th March 1836

My dear Sir

Your letter and the accompanying pamphlets
and periodicals which you were so kind as to send me
by Mr. Leonard all reached me very safely and truly 
were very acceptable to me. Our [added: direct] communication with the 
city has been so long interrupted that our appetite for
any news in the scientific way is quite keen, I assure
you. Spring-- I should say summer as yet shows no 
disposition to visit us speedily for the Fields are yet covered
with nearly a foot of snow and the Hudson is still closed
-- it is probable that the transition of the seasons this year
will be Canadian however and I think you may venture to
come out in the country for a botanical ramble by the first
of July at least! What a fine winter it has been for the [?]

The Comp. [Companion] to Bot. Mag. [Botanical Magazine] which you mention I shall be much gratified
to look over. I fully agree with your ideas of the beneficial
effects which would result from the publication of such a
periodical here. Why will you not undertake it. Can it
be possible that we are yet too youthful to relish and
support any thing of this sort? Will not some of our enterprising
        