
          very numerous, we shall do much in the way 
of exchanges & many things we do, & must 
continue to purchase. Now, my dear Sir, have 
you any horticultural friends who would 
like to send us seeds & roots of your native 
plants in exchange for European & other 
plants? Any in the northern or in the southern 
states? If so please to put me in correspondence 
with them. Do you know any 
poor but competent person who could [added: go] out 
& collect roots & seeds & name them 
with your names for a reasonable hire? & then 
dispatch them during the autumn & winter 
to us? Almost anything would be acceptable 
save what everyone knows to have been in 
cultivation in every garden in England for 
the last 100 years. Plants of New Jersey 
would be especially acceptable to us. Then 
there is another way in which you might 
serve me, by sending me priced catalogues 
from your [?], especially of those 
that are reckoned reasonable. I will 
beg that our dear & good friend Dr. Gray will consider 
this letter as addressed to him as well as 
to you. I thank you for both heartily for the 
1st part of the 2d vol. of your great & admirable 
work. The first leisure hour I have I shall 
notice it in my Journal. Dr. Gray in his letter dated 
20th May, enquires about a copy of Drummond's mosses 
of Louisiana. One was sent for him I should suppose 
before that time. Please say if it has not been 
        