WCP3799

Letter (WCP3799.3716)

[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne

July 21st, 19081

L[ieutenan]t. Col[onel]. Prain2,3

Dear Sir4

I send herewith seeds of the Tasmanian Telopea5, and Blandfordia6, gathered this year.

Mr. Guilfoyle7 of the Melbourne Bot[anical] Garden, tells that they found the Telopea, difficult to raise ap[oin]t[ed] to[o] damp oft[en] in winter!

I suppose you have not any young plants of the fine Feijoa Sellowviana [Sellowiana]8 which my wife greatly admired at Kew [2] 2 weeks ago. If so I

should greatly esteem one however small, as I have a wall where I

think it would do well[.]

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
A stamp for the Royal Gardens, 22 July 1908, appear just below this date.
2
"98/1908" written in another hand
3
Sir David Prain (1857 — 1944), a Scottish Botanist.
4
"Plant sent & advised 28 — VII- OS" Note added later by Otto Stapf (1857 — 1933), botanist and taxonomist and Keeper of the Herbarium at Kew from 1909-1920.
5
A genus of shrub usually known as Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata).
6
A genus of flowering plant in the family Blandfordiaceae.
7
William Robert Guilfoyle (1840 — 1912), a botanist and landscape gardener.
8
Also known as Acca sellowiana, this is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family. Native to southern Brazil.

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Transcribed by Adams, Christina [2012-10-10] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP3799,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3799