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The Germantown Nurseries,
Chew Street, below [Gorgas?],
Germantown, Philadelphia.

August 10th 1880

Dear Prof. Bessey,

Today I have from
your publishers a copy of
[your?] "Botany". It will be
too late to review [the?]
property for the next [Gardeners?]
[?] [?] and elsewhere
but it so happens that
I had sent on to the Magazine
a [note?] that such a work
[was?] "[?]". I
[was?] [past?[ [from?] [?] a paper
for the Am. Ass. in "[?]
in parastic plants," and
I [?] a [??] [?] through
[my?] work to see what you
said about them and
their "hosts" ([?]?). I am