WCP3859

Letter (WCP3859.3778)

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

May 28th 1911

W. Watson Esq.

Dear Sir

Will you please send me the "Bulletins" containing "New Garden Plants", from that issued in 1903 to the latest, (of this year).

For these 8 members, at 4d. each, I enclose P. order for 3/- including postage.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

over

[2] P.S.

Will you kindly send me the title of any Periodical or Pamphlet, (in English or French) giving the most recent descriptive List of the species of the genus Primula, in which I am just now much interested as a horticulturist.

A. R. W.

[3]1[4]2

Written in an unidentified hand on page 3 is

" Referred to descriptive lists in Nicholson's Dictionary. Reports of Primula Conferences in Journal Hort. Soc. vii xxix "Elevations on Indian Primulas" by Sir G. Watt in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. xxix Forrest & Balfour in Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, iv. Irving on "The hardy Primulas" The Garden, 1909, May 15-Juy 31 pg. 243, etc.

Pax & Kneeth, Primulaceae in [2 words illeg.]

31.v.11"

Please cite as “WCP3859,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3859