WCP3939

[1]¹

Old Orchard,²

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

March 10th. 1913

The Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew.

Dear Sir

A few months back I sent you flowers & leaves of an Spomcea from Uganda which had white and blue flowers on plants otherwise similar. I enclose a few seeds of the blue form, which has just ripened seed in my greenhouse, in case you may wish to grow it.

I have just received about a hundred packets of seeds [2] from the Darjeeling Bot[antical]. Gardens about half of which are common or well known species. I enclose a list of the other half, as to which I can find no information in my books; and I shall be very much obliged if your Garden Curator will be so good as to note in the blank column which of them he considers worth growing as garden plants; with any information he can supply as to colour of flowers, height, habitat &c. as a guide to those which are worth growing out of doors or in [3] a small Greenhouse, and return the list with notes at your earliest convenience.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]