
          Manchester, N.J. 18 April 1844.


 My Dear Friend


 I have been helping Mr. Wm Torrey
 in a new piece of business for the past week, and
 Mr. Fields Plants are not yet all ready - If they
 were I could send them by Mr. Schenck who expects
 to go through your city next Monday on his way
 to meet the Presbytry. - but I will try to prevail
 on him to take a few living plants - By the bye
 are the plants I sent you living still? I set out
 a few at the same time and they get on finely.
 I sawed a barrel in two buried it in the ground so
 that the sawed off portion came even with the surface
 of the ground then filled it with muck
 from the swamp, planted  a cupressus in the centre
 and the Helonias and a few specimens of Sarracenia 
 around it then nearly filled it with
 cold spring water particularly the leaves of the
 latter plant. These too thrive very well
 and I expect a fine crop of blossoms this season,
 - I planted another in a pot which
 is thriving remarkably well with scarce any water


 I have just received a letter from Mr.
 E. Tuckerman of Boston to whom I sent a small
 suite of Carices a short time since. - He writes 
 that he found among them Carex Salina, Wahl!
 I think I can find the locality again and will try
 in due season to do something more for the cause

        