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Almondsbury

[1890?]²

Dear Sir,

The bulbs I sent you some years ago were I think Manonia Bonkeri. I identified it in the Kew Herbarium 2 years ago — no one I think has the bulb in England so if you can ascertain the fate of the one I sent you it would be interesting — I sent one to M^r. Ware³ but he lost it – It was my brother⁴ who named all my hepatica by careful naming — when I tell you that an application of the inch measure this year showed me that nearly [2] every bloom was over 11/4 inches & often 50 - 60 blooms out on a plant — you may imagine what a delight mine are — scarcely 2 alike — & about 360 plants A. vitifolium — & A. vitifoli rather this latter[.] I have fine seedling plants 18 inches high to give away — the former I have only seen at Canon Ellacombe.⁵ Better ask him for seed — it is a very delicate lilac blue — I mean to get seed from him this year. My plants are from my seed- same here — where (allium) blooms properly and is quite indifferent to frost.

Yours truly | C O Miles⁶ [signature]