TALBOT2655

Lacock Abbey

March 22^nd

Sir

the Seedlings You ordered me to buy and form a nursery with – I cannot get them all I have got the holly^s Occidental Plane and Syringa from Stroud ¹, the others neither Heale ² nor Stroud grows but Stroud took the order and said he would get all the remainder. I have been expecting them daily for this month back – the last account I received from him was that the Barge in which the Seedlings were coming from London in has been arrested on her Passage but that still he expected them very soon. I told him that it was now far advanced in the Season, & if they were lying on board for a considerable time they would not be worth planting &c &c

I send you the names of the remainder, in case you might think proper to buy them in London & bring them by the carriage as they would be but light &c &c

Oriental Plane
Walnut
Tulip tree
Sumach
Ptelea trifoliata
Acer Negundo
Deciduous cypress
Barberry
Laburnum
Pyracantha

Your Ob^dt Hu^ble Serv^t

C Fitzsimmons

H. F. Talbot Esq^r M. P.,
31 Sackville Street
Piccadilly
London