TALBOT8511

Millburn Tower ¹Edinburgh
Jan. 22

Prof^r Balfour

D^r Sir

I enclose a specimen of Bougainvillæa, from my sister’s ² garden in the South of England –

Could you send me a dried flower of the new species of Clerodendron from the Old Calabar ³ which flowered recently in your botanic garden? I cultivate a very pretty scarlet sort in my stove ⁴ in Wiltshire which ripens its seeds regularly, and thus I raise a succession of young plants every year.

I remain Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot