Requena's deceased friend Mr Edward Field, on his return from home in the latter part of 1852, received a case of plants from RBG Kew under Hooker's direction. Field was good enough to make Requena a present of the following plants: Ixoca [Ixora?] incarnata, Ixoca bandhuca, Blighia sapida [ackee] and Bertholletia excelsa [Brazil nut]. Requena is happy to report that all these plants have grown admirably well. The Ixocas gave fine branches of red and yellow flowers never seen before in Mexico and their beauty was the best ornament of the season in his garden. The B. sapida is a luxuriant tree now about 12 feet high. Since last year it has yielded abundant fruit: like an apple, but oblong with the shape and size of a cucumber, bitter and astringent to taste. He would be glad to know the properties of this fruit or tree. The B. excelsa has reached about 18 feet at his plantation but has not yet fruited. Mr Field died in May 1853 and Requena understands that none of the plants that Field kept for himself are alive, not withstanding that all arrived in good condition. Before his death, Field gave him the list of the plants contained in the said box, formed in Aug 1852 by Mr Smith, together with a printed circular from RBG Kew requesting him to report on the state of the plants, as he now does. Page 1 of 2.