Sir. W. Hooker
Lacock Abbey, Chippenham
March 12 /52
Dr Sir
I have a fine Specimen of your Olearia pannosa about 7 or 8 feet high in flower in my conservatory. Shall I send you a branch of it in a box? –
It differs from your description in not having “radii corollis latis purpureis”, 1 but angustis albis. 2 It is certainly a tree, and probably grows 20 feet high.
The description of Echites splendens in the Botl Magaz. 3 does not notice its remarkable fruit which has been produced in my garden – It consists of 2 capsules, or follicles, united at the top, so as to form a circular hoop – Almost enough for a generic distinction. Shall I Send you a Specimen.
I was glad to see one of the Sikkim Rhododendrons 4 in flower the other day R. ciliatum. I don’t know whether this is the first of them that has bloomed.
Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot
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