WCP4452

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

August 23^rd 1911

My dear Poulton

We shall be very pleased to see you on the day you name. The drought has been terrible here full 3 months with only one week of average moist weathers and 2 hours moderate rain the day before yesterday. And I was in the midst of making my new Alpine garden in the beginning of it! This I shall still be glad to show you as I have a lot of interesting things which I hope [2] will be fine another year. Australian and U.S. shrubs are doing well this year. My Tecoma radicans is a sight, about 40 flower bunches on it, and I hope some will be on when you come. My Eubothrium is doing well I am glad to say, and also a Crinodendron Hookeri = Tricuspidaria hexapetala, showing flower; in my shaded & rather damp new garden. If we do but average weather next summer I hope to see a number of my best things in [3] flower, which I have [word deleted] ^been waiting for this 5 to 10 years.

Excuse me now as I have been suffering from "excema["] — which has now developed into acute rheumatics or rheumatic gout in r[igh]t shoulder and both hands, which renders the complex muscular motions used in dressing & undressing a succession of acute and often very painful twinges.

By careful dieting it is getting slowly better.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. I tried to get the blue printed[?] vine but I think I failed,

A.R.W. [signature]