
          there was one among them that I got 
near Freehold in Monmouth Co [County]
and as I have not met with 
any other specimen of the same 
plant I feel anxious to know 
the name of it. I expect to be 
in Princeton about the middle 
of May or a little sooner perhaps 
There are a few plants that will 
be in flower then, which I should 
like to obtain. I accidentally 
formed an acquaintance with a 
young man who has been receiving 
his education in Chester Co Penn [County, Pennsylvania]
He has many of the plants of that 
Co [County] and presented me with quite 
a number that were new to me.
He knows but little of plants except 
their names. Notwithstanding 
he has collected a great no [number]. 
He has studied the artificial 
system only and th'o [though] Darlington 
has given the Co [County] a book. his (oracle 
is Eaton) I advised him to read 
Gray. He promised to do so.

You spoke in your last of 
Fremont and his plants. I do not 
recollect that you mentioned 
        