
          My son whose own collections are so ample & who 
has access to all the English Antarctic collections & 
who is provided with the means of showing such 
ample justice to the plants must take the 
cream of collections & learn very little in those 
regions that is new for the French or Americans. 
The French indeed, [crossed out: unless?] [added: unable] at it would seem to 
prepare the descriptions, are publishing a series 
of most expensive botanical plates of Antarctic 
plants & of course giving names quite different from 
my son's, which is much to be lamented.

I long to see some more of your excellent N. Am. [North American] 
Flora & I congratulate you on the prospect of 
having plants from the far west. I hope 
you will set my name down as a subscriber 
if any sets are sold, & that I may have a good 
set. Soon I trust to have some from our 
collector, Burke, who was to cross the Rocky 
Mountains during the past summer from 
Fort Edmonton. He must have had a weary 
winter of it at that place, but he wrote in 
good spirits, in May, just as the snow was melting.

Your brother will tell you something of 
our Gardens at Kew, though he saw them in a 
very unfavorable season & for a short time. 
We are doing great things. Our collection of 
plants has increased & is increasing rapidly. 
Could you know not procure us good seeds of Torreya? 
Strange that we find it more easy to obtain conifers 
from the Antipodes than from the southern 
        