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Among the plants which I have transfered to our
new home is the Dracocephalum which thou sent
me. If thou could get D. grandiflorum] from your
river bottoms, and transmit it me, I should
feel under great obligations.

Thou refers to my statement of 760 articles in
six years - This was only a part, for I was a cor-
respondent of the American Farmer, and of the New York
Farmer at the same time. Part of the, I wrote to
drown sorrow.

I think I have never seen the Florist
referred to in thy last; but really I have more
publications sent to me than I can half read.

The Japan Lily that I have, winters out in
the garden, but under an inverted sod. Your win-
ters must be severer than ours; and it may
need a thinker sod, or even two thicknesses of sod,
which are but a trifle to apply, and may save
the bulb. The last summer was too hot and dry
for some young offsetts, so that I have none to spare
at present.

My Japan Lilies have done nothing except
in Laurel Earth. All that Professor Jackson sent me
several years ago came to nothing.

I think the Summer Bon Chretien pear is
not improved by house ripening. The finest that I have
ever eaten were taken yellow from the tree; but this year
I [illegible] not trust them out so long, - for with our new
Lord we have had new Laws - or rather new practices.