
          you will look [?] at some of my exotics.
Now I will tell you the rule which
governs me in selecting them. I take
all I find cultivated in the interior of
New England. I made Northampton
the standard. I have not included 
a dozen which are not cultivated
there. I added four or five, which I
found in Albany and Troy. Do you
know the exotic clled the shell-flower?
It is didynamous with [?] small
flower, surrounded by an enormous calyx
which is glabrous. and by the [help?] of the 
fancy resenbles a scallop shell. Grows
about 14 inches high. Another exotic
I want to know which [Edwin?] James says they 
call matrimony here. I never saw the
flower. he says it is of the 5th class. 1 order
[?] and the [?] resembles an
ipomoea but it is rather tubular with a cleft
limb. Berries red and remain after the leaves
fall. It is climbing [added: woody] vine and some
up [added: 20 or 30 feet] [?] here. But it is not the Ampelopsis
quinquefolia so common here. I want
to know these two very much, before our
book goes by them. Let me know them 
if you can them out.

Your etc.
Amos Eaton
Doct. John Torrey

[Added sideways: I believe I shall take a trip in Albany and Troy]
        