WCP3856

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

March 20th. 1910

Dear Col. Prain¹,

Thanks for the seeds you have been so good as to send me. I suppose my old friend Mrs. Scott told you of my new bit of wild garden, which I am trying to stock with any thing that will grow in it.

The blue lily which I grow in my greenhouse, (now for over 10 years), is the Nymphaea scutifolia from Port Elizabeth, S[outh] Africa. Years ago I had roots of N[ymphaea] gigantea sent me from Sydney, but [2] they soon died after producing one small flower. I was then told, that you had difficulty with them at Kew.

I have raised a lot of nice seedlings of the Telopea truncata, which I shall try planting out in my damp shady ground, though they grow I fear very slowly.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Lt. Col. D. Prain F.R.S.

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