TALBOT356

Boyton House
July 14^th

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your Letter just recieved [sic] & for the Catalogue of Burtons ¹ Eg. Antiquities I am still very anxious to see the Musa work ² as I have now the pleasure to say I have two plants of it in good health!!!! I wish you could give me a sight of it for one day. I got here Wednesday & found more new plants than I ever had before now I should like to have the satisfaction of shewing them to you 120 distinct species of Cacti the Mendoza ones most curious. the splendid new Mexican Solandra fig: in the Mag: ³ now with several flowers on it!!! I believe it has not flowered any where besides in Europe a Tree Dalhia [sic] which I think will soon rival one of my Elms!! Brugmansia a large woody shrub nearly as high at the Garden Wall!!! a large Tub of the Nelumbeum luteum from Car: full [illegible deletion] of leaves 3 feet above the water. a splendid new Papaver Gar. ⁴ from [illegible] with such large leaves I never saw before a large plant or 2 of Musa Cavendesia ⁵ which I expect daily to shew flower & fruit – 3 plants of Lance’s Cactus one as high as the stove top & I should like to get one you mention as I have not the least Idea what it can me [sic]. The Mex. sand plants I have planted out in the Conservatory & are makeing [sic] immense shoots. I expect tomorrow a quita large just imported collection of orch: plants from Brazil oncedium [illegible] and another daily expected as fine a one as can be got by a person in great power on that Coast & who has sent them to a friend of mine & who has given them to me not caring for them but I now do having by chance fallen in with such a lot or lots. I think some of our Hort. friends would like to see them I am making a good Hot Bed to recieve [sic] them

I have at last got three plants up of the Gundelia Tournefortia ⁶!!! & 4 large plants of Dianthus Libanotis Coming into flower –

yours sincerely
A Bourke Lambert

I [illegible] at Salisbury

on tuesday [sic] next