TALBOT1783

Naples
16 Jan^y 1829

My dear Henry

I enclose the Scheme of a lottery to be drawn at Florence in the course of a month – I have marked which are the pictures best worth having, as I examined them when there – I will receive ten tickets that is eleven as one is given gratis, for you, if you like – if not I will add them to what I have taken on my own account – the tickets I have set apart for you, to prevent mistakes, are numbered as follows:

		Cartella 1			Progressivo 2
		No59			No 2		Lady E 3
		59			8
		59			9		Mr F 4
		57			12
11.		59	Amandier 5		17
tickets		59	Caroline 6		15		Price of 10 tickets 4– florins each fl.40 = £2. 10. 0 or something less
		59	20
		59	Horatia 7		28
		58	62	I will secure your prizes with mine.
		58	Henry		31
		58	90	11th gratis

I wish I had thought before of asking you to send me a packet of common garden crocus roots of two or three sorts – they seem quite unknown here – I mean the yellow – the scotch –(ie the large var. of Tenore’s ⁸ pusillus) & the new dwarf ones – the Susianus – sulphureus &c – I do not think Bertoloni ⁹ has made out the genus with his usual acumen. Mauri ¹⁰ writes me word he will make a collection of seeds for you this winter & send it here – What I now send is from the Villa Bisignano whose gardener is a very deserving man & if you can send me any seeds I shall bestow them in part upon him. Tenores new Colchicum is really a remarkable plant, flower as large as the great C. Bivonæ of Sicily – leaves quite different – & not following the flower immediately – as in C. B. the genus now stands according to me as on the other side.

Colchicum		autumnale (nudum o v sp	Europe
		variegatum do v v c[?]	Levant?
		Bivonæ 11 (foliosum) v v c[?]	Sicily
Possibly large	{	Tenorii (new) nudum v v c[?]	K. of Naples
& small var. of one sp.	Neapolitanum do v v c[?]	Castellamare
		Alpinum ([illegible] parvulum Ten 12–) [illegible] v v sp[?]	Apennines
		Montanum (foliosum) v v sp[?]	Genoa
		+ arenarium v v sicc[?] 13	Hungary

Adieu write to me soon

Y^r Aff
W F S

Pray engage C. & H. ¹⁴ to draw your new plants as they appear specially orchideæ, for once gone you may not see them again.

I have routed out a good many tolerable pictures but they are so dear I cannot buy –

Pray tell me your opinion about the frescoes ¹⁵ I want to have lithographed –

Kit ¹⁶ is not come yet

Get if you can Cestrum glaberrianum a pretty shrub flowers in Winter

Henry Talbot Esq^r
31 Sackville Street
London