Had heard from [Thomas] Velley that Smith was ill but infers from the advertisements for his series of lectures that he has recovered. Offers to send specimens of the 'Avena sterilis' she has planted as thanks for Smith's observations on it, remarks on the "animated flowers". Asks if Smith knows of a "Guernsey lily", which [Carl Peter] Thunberg believes to be from Japan, flowering a second time from one root, in England, without the use of a hothouse, as hers has. Details of how she achieved it, quotes [Thomas] Fairchild [(1667-1729)] from one of [William] Curtis' "Botanical Magazines", believes the same may be true of 'Amaryllis sarniensis'. [John] Stackhouse to visit, he is about to publish work on seaweed.