TALBOT9072

19 Great Stuart Street
Edinburgh

Friday March 9^{th 1}

My dear Miss Craig ²

I am very much obliged to you for informing me of the very curious plant the orange-lemon tree at Cannes - I will certainly endeavour to obtain permission to see it and the other garden which you mention as curious. You know of course the Laburnum which bears 3 kinds of flowers, but that is the only example I know of two plants in one.

Mrs Talbot ³ will send you a woodcut which I met with lately representing the Procession of Caterpillars which you observed at Cannes - It seems that is really its scientific name Bombyx (or Phalæna) processionea. It has therefore lately attracted the attention of the French Naturalists -

Yours very truly

H. F. Talbot