
          Manchester N.J. 6th April 1844.-


 My Dear Friend!


 Mr. Torrey's team is to be sent to
 Princeton, at an early hour or Monday next, and I have
 taken pains to collect a goodly number of the Helonia
 which you saw growing at the Johnson place where we
 dined on the last day  of our last Summers Jersey tour
 They are as you will perceive just budding and in
 a few weeks if the weather remains favourable they
 will be in full blossom - I found them here as in
 every other locality where I have seen them (which is
 in at least five) growing in or very near running water
 the roots descending at least 18 inches or two feet
 into the soft black muck. - And it must I think
 be a very wet place where they are [euthrinted?] if they
 [?] at all. - The little Pyxidanthera is just comming
 out into blossom where the situation is favourable
 though I have seen blossoms more than a month since.


 Drabe verna has been out mearly a month and the
 silicles are nor nearly full grown. - Acer rubrum has
 been out morethan a week since & Epigaea repens
 to I hear is out, - I have just learned that
 there is quite a different variety of vegetable productions
 in the region about Howell Works 18 miles
 from Manchester & I long to pay it a visit (if
 it is practicable) in due time. I also wish to make
 a land trip during the proper season from [Squaw?]
 River down the coast to Barnegat Inlet which I
 think will afford a rich intellectual feast.
        