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MUNSTEAD WOOD,

GODALIMNG.

June 15 1910

Dear Mr. Wallace¹

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 kind so good. I am working on Cheiranthus allionii 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 & hope they will break apart & be bushy.

What is that fair purple daisy, like a uniform Aster alpinus; 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 the 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 — viz C. eriocarpa, 1 ft, greyish foliage light purple flowers in August, & C. macrocarpa, 4 to 5 ft, a grand wood plant, July, large bells of splendid purple, and with them unless you have plants the better known. C. alliariaefolia [sic] & C. merantha white.

I will keep your nice cardboard box 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'

Yrs sincerely

G. Jekyll² [signature]