TALBOT2603

31 Sackville S^{t 1} London
20 Feb 1833

Dear Sir

I have safely received the New Orleans plants, ² for which I perceive I am indebted to you £16,,12,,0, and I beg to know where I can pay the money to your account.

I perceived that one of the N. Orleans plants (I think N^o 351) possessed bulbs that shewed signs of life, I therefore planted one of them, & it is growing briskly! I hope it will prove an acquisition to the gardens – what is its name?

There is a very singular grass in the collection, with a solitary recurved spike, is it a Cynosurus?

Do you wish for any seeds from Sicily or Calabria? I could give you a few.

Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot

I have no specimens of Cnicus tuberosus ³ with me in Town; I have raised it in my greenhouse at Lacock from the seed I collected.

Lady Smith has published in Sir J. Smith’s Correspondence 2 letters of mine written from Corfu.⁴ The account I have there given of the plants of that island from my own observations is correct, but what I have given on the authority of the professor of botany there, is not so. I afterwards found him out to be a mere Charlatan.

Lady Smith should not have published the letters without first asking leave.