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[indecipherable] as semi aquatics under glass. I am now [indecipherable] them out of doors. What a capital correspondent Mr. King seems to be. [indecipherable] (Mr. Andrew) for him to send me a box of Orchids, two thirds are dead & the remainder genera & species which I had before. I begin to think for a man in England it is better to [indecipherable] Mr. Herms' sales than to [indecipherable] products. I built a [indecipherable] 50 by 20, 14 feet high, & in April last while I was away Green [indecipherable] it, a number of [indecipherable] Tropical plants I had in fact, planting them out in the prepared soil. Their growth has been something astounding, in another two months it will [indecipherable] through the
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