
          when seen by you. The seeds cannot of course [added: ripen] so as to
[crossed out: reproduce again] germinate but is it not unique that
they should grow and ripen at all?

I shall be obliged to you if you will at some leisure
moment give me the recipe for coating plaster vases
so as to withstand the weather. The French seem
to understand this admirably if we may judge from
the accounts in foreign mag.-- but I see no recipe
for preparing the substance used.

I wish you would send me a copy of Dr. Gray's
Introduction for which I will remit him. What 
news can you tell me of the Geological Survey?
Have you a copy of the Annals of the Phila Acad. Sciences
for last year that you can loan me for a few days.

If you sommence a botanical class and wish any
specimens of flowers for examination please inform
me and I shall be happy to send you anything 
we have. The long continuance of misty rainy
weather though so very unpeasant has been
by no mens unfavorable to our vegetation & 
the garden is progressing very well.

With respect,
A.J. Downing

P.S. In the basket you will
find an Amaryllis in fine bud
for Mrs. T's stand.

        