WCP3861

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone

Wimborne.

July 10th. 1911

Lt. Col. Prain³ F.R.S.

Dear Sir

Some weeks back I received the enclosed paper from D^r. Koorders⁴ of Java, but did not at the time connect it with a letter from him some months back, requesting me, when received, to send it to you. I now do so, with the letter^†, the P.S. of which⁵ [2] as well as the latter part of the letter, refers to you & Sir Jos. Hooker.⁶ Will you please return the letter when you have copied the parts of interest to you.

The fine plant of Feijoa Sellowiana which you were so kind as to send me two years ago, is now flowering abundantly in a sheltered S.W. corner of ^{my garden} opening its deep red flowers every morning, which the next day are so curled back as to th show only [3] the [illeg.] undersides, the inner red surface of the petals being membranous and separating from the under part as it curls back, I suppose this curious arrangement must have some purpose in connection with insect-attraction.

The alpine plants you were so good as to send me in the spring are mostly doing whereas ^well with others I received from Edinburgh & Glasgow Bot. Gardens, though we have had here a very bad two months drought. To save time and in obtaining [4] several other Primulas ^{which I wish for)} should be greatly obliged if you could send me a few fresh seeds, as they ripen, of any of the following 20 species ^which you may have in sufficient quantity, and most of which you probably grow at Kew. (List enclosed)

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