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Munstead Wood,

Godalming.

June 24 1908

Dear Mr. Wallace

Many thanks for the flower. I put the blue Nymphaea into a pail of tepid water & in two hours it was fully expanded & glorious — the bud opened well too.

Your hybrid Roses are very interesting; the lovely pink No 1 is a perfect gem — often & there is a sweet single [1 word illeg.] rather near it in colour — ^{but lighter}. No 2 must also be a pretty garden rose. Your wichuraiana & Jacqueminot is wonderful for strength of colour in the half-opened [2] flower, but the colour is of a quality that (to me) is not pleasant. You often get that kind of magenta in breeding from Jacqueminot, a rose that is tempting to use in either cross as it is both a good pollen & seed bearer —I used to notice it in the hundreds of seedlings at Lord Penzance's¹ some years ago —

What is that beautiful heath?

That Centstemum[?] with the lemon buds in the Sierra Nevada must be a treasure.

Yours sincerely

G. Jekyll [signature]