
          quite congenial to my tastes & wishes. I only 
mention them as an excuse for my apparent 
negligence of some of my most valued 
correspondents. To you & Dr. Gray I have 
especially wished to write. Your employments 
are so congenial to my own & I 
take, you may believe me, a very deep 
interest in your admirable Flora. It is 
a work that does you & your country 
the highest credit.

I thank you extremely for the New 
Jersey living plants you were so very kind 
as to send to our Garden. They are just the 
kind of things I desire to have & in which 
we are too so deficient. Unfortunately there 
was some damp hay among them which 
got heated & some of them suffered, but 
others are recovering. I do desire to obtain 
roots & seeds, bulbs, cuttings (of willows &c.), 
acorns, pine cones &c. from N. [North] America.
Do you know any cultivator who is able 
& willing to send us such things in exchange 
for very many plants from the duplicates 
of our Garden? If not have you any 
nursery man who will sell us reasonably 
such things, especially seeds. Pines & oaks 
(from the south) we covet especially, & trees & 
shrubs in general. As this is a good season
        