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WCP2898

Letter (WCP2898.2788)

[1]

LA MORTOLA,

VENTIMIGLIA,

ITALY.

January 17th 1908

Dear Sir,

The cuttings, for which you ask, will be sent to you in spring as now it is likely that they would arrive frozen.

Please, accept my best thanks for the seeds of the Caesalpinia pulcherrima. I am sorry not to be able to name the plant from Montevideo by the fruit only. I shall try to grow the seeds, I wonder what it can be.

If you will be so kind as to spare us a few Tasmanian seeds, I shall feel greatly obliged to you. There may be many good things, if I can get our gardener to grow them; but there lies generally the difficulty.

I am, | Dear Sir, | yours very truly | Alwin Berger1 [signature]

to

Dr A. R. Wallace

Wimborne

1
Berger, Alwin (1871-1931). Superintendent of the Hanbury Garden in La Mortola, Italy. Director of the botany department at Stuttgart's Natural History Museum.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2898.2788)]

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Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2014-11-07] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-11-07] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2898,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2898