
          Suppose I find that I have not time to go to 
 the Mountains of Carol. [Carolina] & Georgia for live plants 
 next autumn, could I get Knieskern to go? Do you 
 think he would to as well as me? By the way, 
 what has become of the box of live plants he sent 
 up to New York last autumn? I have heard nothing 
 of it, and I fear that all that labor is lost.


 My great object, for next year, is to attempt to raise 
 $10,000 from some of our rich men, to rebuild our 
 Greenhouse on a larger & handsome scale. There are
 a few men, who have never given anything to the College, 
 who may perhaps be induced to give for this 
 object.  My Coldeniana is printed in the
 January no. [number] of Silliman; and my extra copies are
 by this time in New York, I suppose.


 Remember me kindly at Princeton.


 Yours affectionately


 A. [Asa] Gray 
        