
          foliage from any of your specimens,
 of which I send you a specimen
 from a young plant in Meyer
 Loddiges's collection, and of
 which there are considerable 
 trees at Lyon and elsewhere.


 Ulmus racemosa seems distinct
 as far as respects flowers, and I shall
 introduce it in my appendix; for
 the abridgement ^ [inserted: of [?] [Brit?] is printed, or rather
 I should say stereotyped, as far as Pinus.
 I shall also introduce your [?]
 [?]. Your are so good [?] offer me 
 a plant of it, and if you have several,
 I should be very glad of one sent to
 W. Thorburn's; not however unless you
 have abundance, as in my small
 garden within the reach of the [smoke?]
 of London, they might soon die.


 Being very anxious to send off
 the specimens lest you should think
 that I have received them long ago, and
 am detaining them, I hasten to make 

        