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Booker thanks Hooker for sending Victoria regia and other seeds in his January letters, which have arrived safely. Bolander notes that the included hints on treating the plant will prove useful to the gardener. The flower beds in the park are being improved and the commissioners are making good use of their money, employing men for one dollar a day. They have put in several hundred Pines and Cypresses, which have grown well without being much attended to. This is probably due to there being permanent moisture in the pure sand hills, reported by a previous gardener. In the conservatory there is a tank 30 feet in diameter. [See also letter at 199/76.] Pages 1 and 4 of 4.