
          However I trust to you goodness to look over the note & right or re-write
it as you see proper. You will greatly oblige me also by running your
practised eye over the paper again & rectifying anything which may have
escaped me if it is to go to Silliman. I hope you will by all means
have the drawings to accompany it. If you cannot get Lt Bailey
to excent the lithograph of the plant I think I might get Mr
Hoyle to do it but I think one who hnows some thing of botanical
drawing ought to do the plate of the seed.
I hope you will be able to obtain some seeds, if not the
live plant of the Florida taxoid plant. Young trees could
be sent best in the last of March as they would be certain to
grow here at that time.
The Boston Hort. Mag. will be brought [?] with a new & improved
appearance in Jan. next and I hope to see [added: it] well supported. I think you
will make some exertion to reorganize your N.Y. Loc. I have just received
the annales de la societe Royale d'Aortialum de Paris [?] up to this
[?] July & they are highly interesting.
I should be glad to become a member of the Lyceum, is there
any particular difficulty in so doing?
I shall be in N. York probably the first of next week and  give myself
pleasure of calling on you. I suppose you meet the governor in Albany
this week. I remain Dear sir,

With the utmost esteem
Yours,
A.J. Downing

Monday
        