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WCP3859

Letter (WCP3859.3778)

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

May 28th. 1911

W. Watson2 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 numbers, 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.

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1
Round stamp of "ROYAL GARDENS – KEW 30 MAY. 1911.”
2
Watson, William (1858-1925). Curator of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1901-1922.
3

In Watson’s handwriting, "Referred to descriptive lists in Nicholson's Dictionary.

Reports of Primula Conferences in Journal Hort. Soc. vii xxix

"Observations 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 Engles Pflanzenich

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31.v.11"

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Please cite as “WCP3859,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3859