
          U.S. Patent Office
 May 21, 1858


 Sir:


 Your favor to Mr. Browne of the
 17th instant, kindly offering to prepare a paper
 on the indigenous hedge plants especially adapted 
 to the Southern States, for the next Agricultural
 Report of this Office, was duly received.
 You can, as you propose, furnish drawings on
 wood ready for cutting, sufficient to cover
 four octavo pages to illustrate said paper, for
 which this office will pay you eight dollars.


 It is desirable that you should
 forward the paper with the illustrations, if
 practicable, in ten or twelve days.


 Inclosed I forward you the size of
 the page.


 With regard to the catalogue of
 native grasses which you propose to furnish

        