
          P. S. Pray [put? push?] Mr. Stobbic into the last [way?] for reaching 
Virginia, & if there are any gardens worth seeing 
about New York, 
tell him of them.
Arnott comes to me to morrow for 2 or 3 weeks.

And. [Answered] Dec 1839.
[Recd. [Received] May 27th 1839]

Glasgow, Mar. 28,
1839.

My dear friend

It is not long, I think, since I did 
myself the pleasure of sending you a 
small parcel & writing to you. Mr. 
Murray is about to send another gardener 
to America (Virginia). Mr. Stobbic, 
a very steady excellent young man, who 
has just been putting in order my 
Highland garden, & who indeed did 
much to it last year, especially in 
the arrangement of the kitchen garden. 
He is obliged to go via New York. So I 
I make up for you a little packet with 
the last no. of Annals of Nat. Histy. [Natural History] & 
a few more plates (unpublished) of Icones
Plantarum, to show you that the 
future nos. will contain something 
illustrative of American botany. I have

        