TALBOT1147

Melbury ¹

Dear Henry

All the plants in my list were out of doors – I shall give you another when I return to Abb. ² the end of the week.

Thank you for the seeds, Lobelia Bivonæ & Erica Sicula are 2 Plants I want more than any – I will send you a specimen of Sedum litoreum Does anybody know the true Hispanicum? Your [sexfidum?] is I believe Tenores ³ pallens & the Hispanicum of most gardens.

I have been studying Crocuses & enclose you a poor specimen of suaveolens, Bert. from the Valle D’Inferno –⁴ certainly distinct from Imperati, the nearest to it, in having a simple greenish spatha, a tall yellow stigma little indented, & a different look. One of the variegated vernus, has a white stigma. I am all curiosity to know more about Hyacinthus spicatus. ⁵ Which of Gussones ⁶ Sedums did you find at Nice – Pray continue to keep S. ceruleum or heptapetalum I have often sent roots of Arum tenuifolium but they never do – where did you get it? when I get back to Ab. I will send you some bits of Sedums as they seem so hardy. I hope you brought some of the yellow or pale Iris pumila it is not common in gardens. They will have the common great glaucous Euphorbia in Italy to be biglandulosa & that Myrsinites is dwarfer but I don’t know – E. fruticosa is what I want now. Have you the great Italian Characias which is now found out to be neither Characias nor Veneta, & which I call provisionally E. Italica – it is very handsome for Shrubberies. I cannot get Spinosa up. I enclose Marys ⁷ list what is your Narcissus? Had you any Campanula seed from me – or Arabis rosea & collina or the true Alyssum deltoideum we having been all along taken in by an Impostor. When do you go to town?

Yr Aff
W F S

Cynoglossum omphaloides ⁸
Polygala chamæbuxus
Scorpion Senna
Evergreen Cytissus [sic]
– do triflorus
White hose in hose
red Jack in the box!
Christmas roses
mignionette
nettle leaved Celsia
Black Lavender
Arabis rosea
Rubus Chinensis
Fragaria Indica
Calycanthus præcox
Oxalis purpurea
Heleborus[sic] viridis
Andropogon dalechampii
Corchorus japonica
Double daisies
Nettle leaved Campan.
Pittosporum tobira
Fragaria nivalis?
Gilia capitata
Cowslips
double daffodils
M^r Whately’s cistus a brilliant rose colour

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Persian Cyclamens not quite in flower here, being in a shady spot, but they are very fine at M^rs Dillwyn’s ⁹ close to Swansea & have been flowering very well for some time past. –

My Raddis ¹⁰ very forward some ¼ yd high! –

Anemone coronaria		Diosma odorata
– Cumæ		Œnothera Lindleyana
– double Scarlet Hortensis		Honey Alyssum
Purple Senecio		Narcissus Italicus
Coronilla Valentina		– true Soleil d’or
Yellow Xeranthemum		– papyracea
Crocus vernus		– Henry’s?
– pusillus		Yellow Jessamine
buff & lilac		Double Brompton Stock
purple & [illegible word]		sing[l] do
Scotch		[Queen?]stocks
Winter Acconites		Pyrethrum ( Jane’s 11)
Laurustinus		– single do
Medit. Stock		Geranium, Clemenstone 12
Evergreen Candytuft		Periwinkles big & little
Gibraltar do		Double furze
White Chrysanthemum		Pyrus japonica
Yellow do	Lithospermum orientale
Buff do	Coreopsis tinctoria
Spanish brown do	Mezerion
Yellow button do	Pelargonium of sorts
Echium Creticum		Cistus Albidus
Yellow Alyssum		– sage leaved
– do orientalis		– poplar leaved
Rosa Indica red – pink – minima – Ronalds seedling do yellow Banksia double Wallflower single do – winter do – warted Hypericum double lilac primroses double white single of all colours Erica Arborea – Carnea – Medit. Shrubby Oxeye daisy Lavatera annua – Ambigua – punctata white fumitory		– Dr Buckland’s 13 Broad leaved thrift Lady Radnor’s 14 rocket Himâlaya dead nettle Rosemary Verbascum Cornelian Cherry Spotted Lungwort Double snowdrops single snowdrops [Starch?] hyacinths White hyacinths Scilla bifolia Double pink Hepatica single blue do Hydrangea Veronica buxbaumia Russian violets &cc

Only think ¹⁵ of Hermannia alnifolia being quite hardy & full of flower – Let me know if the bulbs & large sedums you had 3 years ago are doing & if you want more –

Henry F. Talbot Esq MP
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham