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Melbury ¹
Thursday

My dear Henry

I find Begonia [rameataea? is here & Nematanthus. It is a cold evening but there has been no frost here. Geraniums & Dahlias as fine as usual. A magnificent Ceanothus azureus on the wall is covered with flower –by the way I missed your old C. Myrsiflorus this morning.

I enclose two pretty flowers from the stove –

I met Lord Hatherton ² at the station who said Lord Lansdowne ³ was much better this morning. I met also Poulett Scrope. ⁴

I though on looking at your largest Cassia plant this morning that the leaves are very like those of the Brasilian species. I dare say it is the same.

Perhaps this will not find you at Lacock – & the flowers will be passées. ⁵

Do you know Coleus Blumei

I stopped at the nursery at Yeovil & bought a white Lobelia which was new to me

Y^r aff
W F S

Dont you think Crimea is an anagrammatic form of Cimmeria? ⁶ It is known to have been inhabited by some of the Caucasian tribes

[on a smudged slip of paper, in hand of WTHFS:]
Siphocampylos [illegible]cinea
Impatiens [illegible]