
          botanists, and the like. For my own person,
 your western species are of high [crossed out: t] interest,
 as they agree often very closely with
 alpine species from Japan (suppose for instance
 my maples A. argutum to A. barbinerve
 with your A. glabrum!)


 In your answer please give us your
 exact orders at New York, addressing your 
 letters & eventually your packages directly
 to "the Tropical Botanical Gardens at"
 "St. Petersburg". If agreeable, I propose that
 each pays his own parcels, beginning so 
 with the present one myself.


 Believe me, Sir, with the highest
 regards,


 truly yours,
 C.J. Maximowicz
 Curator herbarii H. bot. Petropolit [Botanici Petropolitani]


 St. Petersburg.
 20 September 1867.
 2 October 
        