TALBOT1626

Bitton Vicarage,
Bristol.
March 12

My dear Sir

I thank you for your kind note & offer of plants –

The plants which you grow are mostly so good & uncommon that I sh^d be very glad to see a list of your duplicates whenever you have leisure to make one.

You may recollect once bringing me a very nice nosegay of flowers – From that nosegay I managed to strike plants of Candollea tetrandra, Beaufortia, & Fresenia manicata–¹

I quite agree with your strictures on the Nurserymen – Two years ago I saw at [illegible]’s fine plants of the Saxifraga Lantoscana – The foreman evidently knew nothing of Lantosca, so he boldly named it Saxifraga Launcestoni – probably he was a Cornishman²

Halliwells account of Culverkeys³ is not satisfactory & Wright ⁴ has copied from him –

I am Y^rs very truly
T. R. Ellacombe