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SHERWOOD,

KENILWORTH,

NEAR CAPE TOWN.

April 18 1894

Dear Mr Wallace,

By this mail I send a little box containing 4 tubers of Disa ferruginea & D. graminifolia. They are mixed because they flower at same time ^(Febr.) & grow under almost identical conditions — These are in excellent order — but I had more which I regret to say have dried up & spoiled.

They grow on the hills sides & tops in ^dry stormy places — tubers frequently wedged in deep amongst hard stones or rocky ledges — say from 2-5 inches below the surface. Altho' they flower about mid Febr; they get very little water (rain) [2] from Oct. till then — except a little mountain mist — but often, as this year, there is great drought for 5 months —

— The conditions of these you will therefore see are quite different from those which I sent you before & which flowered in Oct — after our long winter rains.

I hope you will succeed with these as I am not at all sure that either have ever been flowered in Europe

Yours sincerely | Harry Bolus¹ [signature]