
          cheif [chief] enemy the cultivator has to contend against, if the ground ceases
to be cultivated weeds and grasses and briars root it out and it disappears as completely as if it had never grown there. I have found a 
variety growing near this, with [torulose?] fruit differing from the common
form in nothing else, it is quite singular. I have also once met
with it with milk white flowers, it was on a farm once belonging to 
my father near Athens in the upper part of this state. There was something
strange about it too, they were found occupying a space of perhaps
fifty feet square in the midst of a feild [field], the remainder of which always 
grew the blue flowers. On this spot not a flower was to be found but the
white all around, nothing but the blue mixing slightly around where
the two kinds met. Such it was at my earliest recollection and such [added: they] [crossed out: it]
remained, whenever permitted to grow, so long as I had any knowledge
of the place, some twelve or fifteen years. It puzzled me when a 
child and it puzzles me yet. A young lady, once my neighbor, informedme that the white variety grew near this. I have not yet found it.
A gentleman addressed me a few days since from Augusta Geo,
proposing to enter upon a correspondence and [added: an] interchange of plants
informing me that his summer residence was Providence R.I.
and that he had become familiar with my name through you
I should be mortified to think he attributes [crossed out: the] my neglect of replying
to his letter [crossed out: originated from] [added: to] rudeness, when the fact is I cant
make out his name for my life, nor can I meet anyone who can
satisfactorily. I cut it out and enclose it, will you aid me in my extremity?

I remain Dr. Sir
Yours Very respectfully
Hugh M. Neisler

Doctr John Torrey
New York
S.T. Olney

Truly Yours 
Stephen T. Olney
        