
          Manchester Feb. 1st 1844.


 My Dear Friend! 
 Your letter dated 4th & mailed
 14th Ult. has just come to hand I should have
 written to you last week but there is such an extreme
 scarcity of news that I thought it not worth while to
 give you the trouble, or rob you of the time
 which is necessarily consumed in reading my letter
 But since you make a request I will cheerfully
 give you what there is at hand. - 


 Firstly my
 parcels have all come safe to hand except onefrom Chester Co. Pa. from a friend of Dr Darlington
 It was by mistake sent to Trenton instead
 of Princeton, but is probably at the latter place
 by this time amd I hope to get it in the course
 of next week if Mr Schenck goes to Princeton,
 as he intends to go to meet with the Presbytery.


 I shoud like to see your State Flora when
 finished and to possess it too, but I am perhaps
 desiring more than I can obtain without buying
 and for that I am too poor entirely.


 Your inquiry respecting the best method to destroy
 Canada Thistles I can say but little - Seeding
 down or in other words sowing grass seed is often
 resorted to, in the Central part of the state of N.Y.
 Cutting them down often before flowering time
 has often been performed but not (I believe) with
 full success - I have known small patches of
 them destroyed by cutting them down & salting
        