WCP3858

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne

March 11th.1911¹

Lt. Col. Prain, F.R.S. Director of Kew Gardens.

Dear Sir²,

Please excuse delay in thanking you for the very nice and interesting lot of plants you have sent me for my new bog and Alpine garden. The two N[ew] Zealand Ourisias, the rare Primulas, the Jaukea, and the curious Heliopsis Japonica are especially acceptable to me because they are not to be had elsewhere. Thanks also for Bees’ Catalogue. I have dealt with them for several [2] years for miscellaneous plants, but they did not send me their ^new Herbaceous & Alpine List till a few days before I received your very welcome Hamper. I return the empty hamper to day ; and as you say you did not raise any of the Telopea truncata, I send you by Parcel Post 2 plants, the best I have not planted out.

Again thanking you, | Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]