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Munstead Wood,

Godalming

June 15 1910

Dear Mr. Wallace

Thank you so much for the flowers & for the offer of a plant in autumn of your lovely rose "Butterfly" — a charming one, which I gladly accept. I never saw such big bells as those of your white Menziesia. Your wallflower is always grand — no colour of its [1 word illeg.]. I am working on [1 word illeg.] Allinini by selection & hope in time to put it near the colour of yours; it is slowly moving towards it. The three little plants you sent me are thriving. All three made for flower, but as soon as the colour showed I sacrificed them to strengthen the plants and hope they will break apart and be bushy.

What is that fair purple daisy, like a uniform Artu[?] alpium; the disc colour is so fine — I never will have Erigerons because of their greenish discs.

Please give Dr. Wallace my very [2] kindest greetings & say how much wish I could come and see his[?] new garden, but I can hardly move now & fear the chance of doing so is very remote. I want to see it in the autumn two kinds of Campanula that are not so frequent in gardens as they deserve to be — [1 word illeg.] C. eriocarpa, 1 f[oo]t, greyish foliage light purple flowers in August, & C. macrocarpa, 4-5 f[oo]t, a grand [1 word illeg.] plant, July, large bells of splendid purple, and with them unless you have plants the better known. C. alliariaefolia [sic] & C. merantha[?] [1 word illeg.].

I will keep your [1 word illeg.] card [1 word illeg.] till a pretty rose I much admire is out to send back in it to show you — the American rambler Evangeline, with the same kind of wild rose charm as your 'Butterfly'

Yours sincerely

G. Jekyll [signature]