
          I will gladly beg you to give an order at once 
to such a person to the amount of £5. And 
this being a good season I should wish to 
have them directly. Roots of plants will 
come well in bog-moss-sphagnum, from 
which the moisture has been almost entirely 
supressed [suppressed]. A layer of roots & a layer 
of sphagnum, & so on. I must make 
Kew the first botanic garden in Europe, 
& the garden is thrown open in the most 
liberal manner possible to the public. 
We have lost poor Don & a few weeks 
after, at Kew, & in my presence, poor old 
Lambert breathed his last. His love of 
plants continued to the very last & indeed 
he came to die at Kew, that he might be 
near me & the Botc. [Botanic] Garden, to which he 
had just given his fine collection of 
cactuses. His herbarium I trust will go 
entire to the British Museum. The books 
will be sold.

I long to see your report of the botany of 
your state, & I shall be thankful for the set 
of specimens, too, which you so kindly [?] 
for me. The list of the New Jersey living 
plants did not come. Pray do not let a little 
[perilum?] in the living specimens deter you from sending 
more. I am sure that with less moisture & a little more 
elastic bedding they will come well. Early spring, too, is 
the best time for sending them, because these things 
        