
          upon you have replied; "he has been away
some weeks from family, friends, books,
and specimens, he has a good many things
to look after as soon as he returns; give him
a little time and you will find a letter coming
in due season." Which of us all has made
the best judgement of the other?

Yours very sincerely
Lewis R. Gibbes

Dr. John Torrey
New York.

I ought not to omit to mention a remarkable
phenomenon in vegetable physiology exhibited
here during the last month. A small
Elm, in my garden, some 20 feet high, was
completely stripped of its leaves by the gale
of the 8 & 9th Sept. When I came home on the 
16th of same month, it was covered with young
leaf buds putting forth leaves of the usual
pale green colour of the young leaves, presenting
entirely the appearance exhibited in
early spring. It is now arrayed in a new suit

        