
          publishers with your assistance put it to the test?

Mr. Knevels bids me convey his regards to you. His exotic
collection is looking very splendidly I assure you and he
is studying the natural system with the advantage of the 
illustrations afforded by tropical specimens that few of us
can command. A very fine Japanese Sago palm (Cycas revoluta)
about 40 years old and 4 or 5 ft high is throwing up a [huge?]
lusty centre of inflorescence-- probably for the first time in
America. It may be in bloom in a fortnight or more and
I hope you will be able to examine it. Mr. K requests me
to say that you must by no means fail to pay him a visit
when you are in this neighborhood.

You mentioned in a letter in my possession dated about a year
past that you knew a locality in N. Jersey where the Missletoe [Mistletoe]
(Viscum) grew in abundance. You will confer a very great favor
if you have a correspondent in that neighborhood by procuring
me as soon as convenient some seeds of it. Or if you are
too full of engagements pray oblige me by telling me [added: of] some
person in that neighborhood [added: to] whom I may write for them.

Will any one be sent out from England to supply Douglass'
place? It is truly wonderful as you say that all our [finest?]
specimens of dried plants come to us by the way of Europe!
It would be well for us and an honour to the nation if [illegible] some
of the immense surplus moneys in the Treasury which are the 
        