
          Ansd. [Answered] Feby [February] 12

Botanic Garden & Nursery
Newburgh N.Y. 28th Dec. /35 [1835]

My dear Sir,

I wrote you some time since but suppose either
that my letter has not reached you or which is more probable
that your numerous duties in the Laboratory etc. have not left
upon your hands much leisure time.

The Empetrum conradii [Corema conradii] of which you were so kind as to send
me a number of roots, was when it reached Newburgh so much
dried up that with the utmost care we could only make two
pots of it survive. As it appears to be an evergreen it is probable
that like other individuals [added: of that nature] it could be transplanted with most
success in the Spring.

If you can procure for one this coming Spring a few seeds of the
Viscum which I believe grows plentifully in N. Jersey [New Jersey] I shall
be greatly indebted to you.

You will receive by my friend M. Monell (I hope in good order) a
specimen of a species of Euphorbia known in our American exotic
collections as E. Poinsettii [Euphorbia pulcherrima] after [crossed out: that man] our late Mexican minister
of that name who is said to have introduced it into this country 
from Mexico. I believe it is not known in England by that name
if it exists there at all -- as London in [???] a notice of
its flowering in this country supposes it to be synonymous with
E. splendens [Euphorbia milii]. I was told also in Boston this year that such
was believed to be the case there. But on turning to the
        