
          northern latitude of Boston and lower temperature of that city it bids
fair to surpass any other in the Union in that way, although as I
have recently heard N. Biddle Esq. has expended within a year or two past
upwards of $20,000 in glass structures at Bristol N.J.

Pray tell me how your negotiations for my friend Baron [Alois] Lederer's
collection [added: of] minerals have ended. I must confess I should feel some regret
to hear that so fine a collection should be borne away to such
a backwoods out of a state as we feel Michigan yet to be. I 
am surprised to hear from you how richly this university will be
endowed from this [?] of lands and almost from it will yet
rival or surpass the sister institutions in the East. The idea of establishing
a fine botanic garden is so tempting that one could be induced to go almost 
to the Rocky Mts. to see it handsomely done. I think I will speak to 
the future Mrs. D to whom you allude about it next spring!

I am picking up some materials for a 12mo vol which (D.V. [Deo volente]) I 
hope to write next winter on the beauty & utility of advantage of foreign
and indigenous forest trees considered chiefly in relation to landscape
gardening and the improvement of country residences. "There is a great 
want of something in this way still in this country and great groping 
in the dark in the absence of it. The Americans are just beginning to find
out these trees were made for something but to be cut down! If you
see anything in the way of books calculated to assist me pray oblige
        