TALBOT3317

Vienna
2 July

My dear Henry

I wish your letter told me more of your garden – I hope to see it in the course of the summer or autumn – I enclose you a list of Dalmatian plants, & a curious paper of Jacquins ¹ on the drought of last year which was extraordinary particularly taking the quarters from 1 April 1834 to 1 April 1835. What did you find out with Plossl’s glasses? ² I have got from Bertoloni ³ the 1^st part 2^d vol of Flora Italica ⁴ for you. Does not Emily ⁵ give you some of her subdivisions of my seeds? I trust to her for scattering them abroad into all worthy gardens.

I saw for the first time the other day Anisodus – a great Atropa as big as a Datura. It is odd in almost every large botanic garden one finds something new. Chrysanthemum abrotanifolium, Aster canus Campanula muralis, altaica, pendula, Onobrychis radiata, Astragalus vimineus, [Laponanici?], Clematis angustifolia, elongata Iris Monneri, ruthenica, plicata, notha, fuscata dichotoma spatulata, lucida vera, biglumis which is nothing but a spurious sort of spuria, Syringa Iosikea (Transylvanian Lilac) a sort of hybrid between Privet & Lilac, many new Cytisi, Genista &c Robinias more than I ever saw, & Roses – & Prunus, 5 species of dwf Almonds, dwf Philadelphus dwf Rhamni Loniceras, yellow roses, & other dwarfs. Prunus prostrata, spirea decumbens & some curious Euphorbias which you shall have by the bye I have sent you for years all the Euphorbia seeds I could get you should have a good suite of them. I am promised a complete Hortus siccus ⁶ of Saxifrages, of which they have many more than I knew of, some S ⁷ Schraderi, crustata, Gmelini, condensata, trifurcea, Burseriana &c very pretty – Do you know Ranunculus Anemonoides? I saw it for the first time this year & Teucrium Laxmanni, Phlomis lacinata & Samia, Saponaria glutinosa, Silene livida, alpestris, fabaria, Arenaria cephalotos, montana, Dianthoides, linifolia, Fraxinella Daurica, Scutellaria grandiflora, lupulina, orientalis, Cladium germanicum Orchis palustris fl. pleno. Rubus hirtus, Celtis cordifolia, Cratægus stipulacea & heterophylla.

Among Boragineæ there are the Mattia umbellata, Ellisia nyctelea, Echium petreum which ought to be a new genus. Maclura aurantiaca a very fine shrub. Virgilia lutea. Several varieties of common Lilac & Philadelphus & a fine collection of trees & shrubs. Fagus pendula, 10 or 12 Tilias, as many Fraxinus, & a little rose the least I ever saw said to grow wild in Franconia, called Rosa aciphylla. Cytisus Weldeni, Spartium Etnense, Eleagnus argentea, Vitex incisa, Nitraria Schoberi, Euonymus nanus, Sophora pendula, Dalecarlian birch & various American & Siberian dwarf birches – Potentilla Salessovii (shrubby white). I found the other day wild Rosa tomentosa, & pimpinellifolia Digitalis ambigua… adieu

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