WCP3547

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

March 26^th, 1910

My dear Mr Deane¹

I have been so very much occupied since receipt of yours of Nov.² and Dec.³ last, that I must apologise for not having written before to thank you and your friends – Mr Hamilton⁴ and D^r. Chapman,⁵ 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 Kimbla (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. 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]