
          Cambridge, Wednesday Morg [Morning]


 17th April, 1844.


 My Dear Friend 


 I send a hurried line to 
 inform you that I yesterday afternoon 
 sent to your address a small box of 
 live plans by Adams' Express to the 
 Care of Wiley & Putnam (Freight paid to N.Y. [New York]) 
 The box came from the garden too late yesterday 
 to apprize you of it by the last mail. 
 I trust you will find means of getting it from 
 New York at once. 


 The plants are all labelled by Mr. Carter, 
 but his orthography is not always very correct. 
 I indicated a few herbaceous plants to
 him, many of them annuals, which having 
 been brought forward in pots will flower much 
 sooner & better than if you were to attempt 
 to raise them from seeds, e.g. Limnanthes
 Douglasii, the new Gaura Lindheimeri, which 
 is a fine flowerer, Verbenas, &c.
 Also Primroses, Dodecatheon, Funkia, &c.
        