TALBOT1235

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Monday ²

Dear Henry

Do tell me what the enclosed Geranium is – Its dilate lilac petals are the prettiest of all the hardy Cranesbills I know. Erodium hymenodes, Romanum, & Richardi are quite hardy I mean to cultivate them & Gussoni & eject macrorrhizon which is a perfect nuisance Gruinum I have lost – but I have an umbrosum at your service.

We go to town as soon as we can find a house – are there any in Sackville S^{t 3} fit for Mam & John ⁴ & me? It is a pity leaving the garden where I am making discoveries every day – The finding Campanula fragilis & Primula Sinensis perfectly hardy in the worst places last winter will work a great change in my gardening – there shall be a blaze of them next year. We have Papaver Caucasicum very pretty – & bracteatum – Glycine Sinensis was magnificent a week ago – A weed has come up in 3 different borders which I take to be Silene Cretica – I will send you a bit it is very pretty & I hope will take to sowing it self as so many others do. Quantities too of a thing like Prismatocarpus verticillatus or perfoliatus are up too in the beds – Anchusa Italica very pretty – Allium pendulinum Muscari comosum & Oxalis purpurea, tetraphylla, cernua, & a brown leaved one all in abundance. I have found Armeria plantaginea – which I confounded with alpina – I have Orchis undulata in beauty The next Orchideæ I send home I will try out.

We want two sittingrooms three bedrooms besides servants if Sackville St affords

such I found Orchis latifolia yesterday, a new plant to me. I have Cytisus capitatus in

blow a very handsome shrub – Asphodelus albus which I can warmly recommend.

I wish Charlotte ⁵ had let me know before she went I wanted to tell her to go by Ehrenbreitstein Montebaurr <sic> & Selters – to drink fresh Seltzer water – What is their plan do they go farther than Milan or to Florence or how where or when I do not write to Jane ⁶ because I should be sure of getting no answer. I want to send Mary ⁷ some of the sky blue grape hyacinths Would you like some

Y^r Affte

W F S

H. Talbot Esq^r
31 Sackville Street