WCP625

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Parkstone, Dorset.

Jul. 21. 1897.

My dear Mitten¹

I send you the lot of Jamaica moss,— & a little Singapore. We have got rain at last which we wanted bad. The red waterlilies are fine this year & the frogbil has filled up all the spaces & is flowering beautifully. It looks very pretty. I wish I could get the Villarsia to flower but have failed so far. My Burma lily which I thought was dead last year is now 6 feet high & showing buds. Also a small one. Some L. auratums I put in are showing finely for [2] flower. The Calochorti also have been finer than ever I have had them.

We did not have a letter from Will² last week, but are expecting one to day or tomorrow. They were working on a railway. I enclose his last ^{post card &} letter, which please return by Flora,³ if not before.

I thought the land was actually purchased or agreed to be purchased by the Parish. How is it that there is any difficulty now? After all [3] the trouble & expense you have had it will be too bad if you do not put it after all. With such a high & airy situation I do not see that there can be any possible injury to health with reasonable precautions.

I put on a lot of roots of the Convolvulus but all the leaves have died & I hardly expect to see them again.

Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]