
          time than I supposed. The printer
 takes it up this week, and when 
 he is done I think I must break 
 off without more delay, and visit 
 you, so as to [sceme?] you before you 
 go to New York and get absorbed 
 in Medical lectures. Then Philada [Philadelphia]. 
 But I must be absent for as short 
 a time as well may be. 


 I see I can not write to day 
 to Mrs. T. [Torrey] directly. Will you tell 
 her that I am about to shut
 up the green house this winter, distributing 
 the plants many of them among
 cultivaters [cultivators], keeping a set specially in 
 the chamber warmed by [drum?], storing 
 other in cellar &. 


 Now if you think they are worth 
 trouble & freight, I will send a box 
 of such things as dear Mrs. T. [Torrey]
 would like, a white Camellia,
 Geraniums, Heliotropes, & whatever 
 we have, indeed, that she will say she
        