TALBOT792

Feb 27

My dear Henry

Tho you do not deserve it I write to you again to beg you will distinctly say what you have done with my plants which were sent seven or eight months ago ¹ & of which I have never heard one syllable –

I have lately got the catalogue of the Madrid garden² w^ch contains many new genera as Diecratium Ferdinanda Villanova Demetria Lasiospermum &c & a fern called Havea cordifolia do you know any of them – those marked with an asterisk are to be exchanged so any one sending a collection of northern seeds will receive southern for them, which is very proper. Do you know the [Basicratium?] humili? I have sent a number of new seeds to Oxford astragali salsola polycnemum &c from Tartary & Georgia & duplicates to Mel Abbotsbury ³ & duplicates if I have them will not go near you till you write more to me

Do you ever see M^r Salisbury? ⁴ how do his plans for naturalizing foreign plants go on? I intend to try some experiments in the country this year I have also another list which I mean to send to the Crimea in a day or two as I have established a communication with that country. I imagine there is no country so near that is so rich [in]⁵ plants as the Southeast of Russia the Crimea Caucasus & Steppes – the very lists make ones mouth water. If you come abroad I recommend it to your attention here & at Moscow are some very good botanists tho’ I have been very unlucky in not knowing one or two. Biberstein, ⁶ Grandidier,⁷ the two Fischers,⁸ Stephani,⁹ Baron de Vietinghoff.¹⁰ C^t Bray ¹¹ & C^t G. Razoumovsky ¹² are people you would like very much & I never saw flowers so beautifully dried.

Yr Aff
W T H F S.

Send me all vegetablenews. [sic]

W. H. F. Talbot Esq^r