
          What I now send you grew within a mile of this 
 place, excepting a few from Goat Island and Table Rock
 (Niagara Falls). The greater part of the plants in your
 catalogue grow in this vicinity, but I have not had
 time to procure them. The Jeffersonia grows near here
 as I have been informed, though I have not seen it.
 I hope I shall be enabled to put up some next summer.
 I am well aware that you will find the specimens
 which I now send miserably preserved, but time & circumstances
 prevened [prevented] my doing better. I have been
 so situated that I have been able to snatch only
 an occasional moment to put up some few plants
 but have entirely neglected their preservation.


 Yours in haste
 John Albert Kennicott


 John Torrey
 N. [New] York
        