
          Recd Nov 30

Columbus Gev, Nov 23rd 1853

Dear Sir,

Enclosed is some of the fruit of the Borya a porulosa [?] which
I collected some weeks ago, and which I thought best to send you
now, rather than wait, until spring (when I purpose sending you
sufficient specimens of the flowers to enable you to determine it with
certainty) unless they might be [mislaid?] or some accodemt happen to
them. The fruit is rather scarce, in the two localities where I have
found the shrub, there are many hundrers growing and I have yet
found but one individual, that bears female flowers and fruit. I
will procure and send you a living root of the Iris I sent you if I
can get the leisure to go out before the stalks are destroyed and
disappear.

I regret very much that Mr. Peabody did not meet you
before he left N. York. He had been in the city several weeks before
I sent the package to him, and entrusted [added: it] to another friend to
carry it on, who having occasion to go through Ohio and remaining
tehre a month, did not arrive until Mr. Peabody had departed.
His success with the Strawberry is, certainly astonishing. I visited
him eight or ten days since, when he showed me one of his beds, in
which in every direction were to be seen plants filled with flowers
and fruit in various stages of growth, he said that he would in a
short time again have them in market unless there should chance
to be some very cold weather, and that he had them in market
every month the present year except January, I think, In beds where
he wishes to raise plants he gathers the fruit in its season and
[added: leaves] them to themselves to put forth [?] and increase as they may.
Other beds which are intended expressly for fruit, are. during the
fall and winter covered thickly over with pine leaves from the woods

        