
          Botanic Garden & Nurseries
Newburgh 11th May 1839

My dear Sir

Your ample package of botanical journals
and pamphlets reached me the morning your left for which 
many thanks. Some one had mentioned that you were to
leave N. York for a professorship at Princeton which I much
regretted to hear; but as you say nothing of it in your note
I [added: venture to] hope you will not find it to your advantage to leave New York.

Last evening I sent you down a small basket of flowers
hastily collected among them the [Dbl?] cherry &c. I have 4 so-called
species? of Calycanthus here of which 3 being in flower I sent
you specimens. Pray let me know what you make of them. Croomia
pauciflora which you kindly sent me last summer in a pot is
growing nicely but shows no symptoms of inflorescence. To a casual
observer it looks not unlike our little dwarf Cornus in foliage now.
I shall never forgive you till you procure me some good seeds
of the new evergreen tree Torreya. I am expecting every day from
England a first rate head gardener & can promise to have
every thing new of this kind safely managed.

I am glad to hear of Dr. Gray's successful & pleasant tour.
If the master of botanists Robert Brown should come out to
        