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Novemr the 17 1753.
Much Esteemed & worthy Friend
Whereas J wrote to thee last spring & have yet received no answer
therefore J have not much to write at present. But haveing an
oper-tunity J send thee a small specimen of a plant which J discovered
four-teen years ago but supposeing it would not grow in A garden & not
knowing what it was or what flower it bore J tooke but little notice
of it but haveing now found out the way to raise any plant or shrub
(but the great magnolia) J transplanted it last fall & the succeding spring
produced this specimen but by an untimely frost it was niped that it
could not open to the top: it is an evergreen veratrum it grows in wet
boggy shody cold ground the root is white & fibrous from which
pro-ceeds 16 more or less of longish leaves, broadest toward thair
extre-mity yet sharp pointed, the leaves of last years growth lyeth flat on the
ground in rays round this summers leaves which stand more erect yet
bending toward the ground & sorounding a centeral bud which is set
in the fall & if for flowering is like A pointed Cone whose base is near
an inch diameter which next spring shoots up a single stalk eighteen
in-ches high with short pointed leaves set round it without order gradualy
diminishing in magnitude unto the spike of flowers which is two or
three inches long. the petals is a flesh color the apicies blewish &
standing out longer then the Petals which making A prety appearence.
Pray how doth our friend Peter Kalm go on with the discription
of the plants of our Gountrey. He promised to send me one as soon
as printed & that he would do me justice in mentioning what Plants
or specimens J shewed him. But J can never yet A letter from him
since he left my house J should be very well Pleased to see what he
hath wrote on our Plants. J have sent Mr Gollinson A Perticular
discription of our Evergreens which he desires to Publish thay are so
discribed from the green specimen before me that you may easily know
each Perticular species by thair distinguishing Characters & when that
is Printed none will be more ready to oblig thee with one then thy
friend in hast
John Bartram.
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