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What species of Tulips do I enclose? I think I will send you roots of all ours except those you know already viz. O. Solis. Sylv. & Clusiana I wish you could botanise a few days at Abbotsbury ¹ this year, you would find something new – I think what you told me once was Silene conica, must be S conoidea a larger plant & more operidional ² –

Raddi ³ would be glad to have a flower & leaf of any of the Melastomas that flower in the English hothouses – Shall I send you an offset of his fine new Bromelia? I do not know in what state of forwardness your garden is & am in the dark about many things I could send you – When are you to be in Switzerland & do you not mean to pass the Alps. Pray execute your plan of a travelling garden in front of your carriage ⁴ –

How is Jane? ⁵ her letters are become as scarce as a byssus ⁶ in fructification She was to find a parcel directed to her from me in B. St. ⁷ –

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