WCP3547

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne

March 26th 1910

My dear Mr Deane

I have been so very much occupied since receipt of yours of Nov[ember] and Dec[ember] last, that I must apologise for not having written before to thank you and your friends Mr Hamilton and D[octo]r Chapman, for the information as to local floras they have been so kind as to send me. Please thank them for me. The data they have given, with [[2] your own, enable me to make some interesting comparisons, with the floras of other parts of the world which I have Collected, and which lead to some interesting Conclusions. I think I have now sufficient of this kind of facts; but I shall be glad if you will give me the heights of Mount Kembla (Illawarra) — and Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains, which I cannot find in any books or maps in my possession.

[3] Will you also kindly tell me if Telopea speciosissima grows in dry or wet places — or rather Telopea oreades of Victoria, as that is the species I have raised from seed, and also the T[elopea] truncata of Tasmania. Also do they grow in shade, or fully exposed to sun — on rock, clay, sand or peat.

I am just making a new "wild garden" & want to try them in suitable positions out of doors.

Yours very truly | Alfred R Wallace [signature]