TALBOT388

Frankfort¹
5 Sept

My dear Henry

Here is the only letter I find for you.

I thought you were going to the Meuse & Moselle.² You do not see half enough when you come abroad. Is Horatia ³ coming with the M^t Edgcumbes? ⁴

The Trahernes ⁵ are due these ten days – they must have met with a bad inn & turned back disgusted.

I am glad you have some good things in your garden – We have the anemone japonica here & very pretty – also Hibiscus palustris, which I never could get to flower – Glycine Apios – which I never saw but here – Cleome arborea – Oxalis lasiandra – & Helianthus orgyialis –

Have you seen the new planet ⁶

Y^r Aff
W F S

If the garden at Lacock as you say does not flourish why not plant strange trees & shrubs – on the principle of an arboretum – have all the oaks all the Poplars, all the Magnolias & any other fine hardy genera you have space & soil for that & lie out of the wind, a valuable circumstance for trees.