WCP3827

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Parkstone, Dorset.

Oct^r. 8th. 1889

W. T. Thiselton Dyer F.R.S.²

My dear Sir

When Sir J. Hooker³ was at Kew he was so good as to send me a few rare plants for my garden, and now that I have moved for my health into a milder locality (as above) and have to commence stocking my garden anew I venture to hope that you may be able (and willing) to favour me in like manner. I was at Kew last week but heard you were [2] away or would have called on you. The plants I should particularly like are either rock or bog plants, such as the rarer ⁴ Primulas, Androsaces, Campanula, Gentians, Cyananthus, Codonopsis, Meconopsis, Cathcartia, Oxalis enneaphylla, &c... or tender climbers or shrubs likely to grow here out of doors — such as the fine Abutilon vexillarium I saw outside at Kew, Caryopteris mongolica Ceanothus floribundus, Abelia floribunda, the rarer Tropaolums, species ^{of Fuchsia or Calceolari}, or any seedling of Cape Heath, some of which I fancy might do out of doors here where our native heaths grow in greater [3] luxuriance than I have seen them elsewhere.

These are a mere indication of my desiderata, but almost anything you could send me would be acceptable.

From your excellent letters to "Nature" on the "Romanes"⁵ controversy I am in hopes that you agree with me on that point, although I know that my ideas on some points as to the distribution of plants are considered very wild by most botanists.

Believe me | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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