
          U. S. Patent Office
 May 28, 1858.


 Sir:


 Your note to Mr. Browne of the 25th instant,
 explaining the object of your proposition in regard to an
 article on Hedge plants for the Agricultural
 Report of this Office, has been received.


 Your views I perfectly understand,
 and therefore would state that your article will be
 accepted on your own terms, while eight dollars will 
 be paid to the artist for each of the illustrations
 you design to accompany it.


 In regard to the engraving, that does not
 come under the immediate supervision of this Office,
 but under that of the Superintendent of Public Printing.
 The expenses for the blocks on which the designs are to be
 transferred by photography will be paid in addition to 
 the above.  


 Yours very respectfully
 J Holt
 Commissioner.


 Dr. John Torrey,
 New York.
        