Tuesday

Albemarle St

Dear Henry

I am glad to see Vicia grandiflora &c pray set apart for me a bulb or two of Allium subhirsutum I think we have not got it – Allium roseum is ambiguum of Flora Græca, ^<1> whose roseum I think I once found at Cuma, it is capsuliferous not bulbiferous, & had more flowers.

At the Hort Soc ^<2> today I saw two beautiful orchideæ, Oncidium papilis & Renantheca – which grows on rocks in China. You send me Cynoglossum pictum –Vicia bithynica – a Euphorbia very distinct I may have sent you E. dulcis but it is one you must know – I did not think dulcis had dark petals – it should be soft and hairy – Portlandica & Segetalis are very near & Tenore’s ^<3> cæspitosa a sort of maritime segetalis almost the same with longer leaves – do you know pinea? You send a purplish vetch not much like hirta but like a purple var. of lutea I once found in Puglia & which Jane ^<4> I think possesses.

I suppose we shall see you soon I go to M^rs Marryatts ^<5> on Saturday.

When do the Party go abroad? I wish I could have gone down to Lacock when you did but the Courts prevented me –

Yr Aff^e

W F S

I can send you Vicia lutea from Abb^{y <6>} to compare with yours – it is perennial & flowers late.

I saw at Whitleys ^<7> Hyacinthus amethystinus a beautiful little true hyac.

Henry F. Talbot Esq MP ^<8>
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

1. John Sibthorp (1758–1796) and J E Smith, Flora Græca sive Plantarum rariorum historia quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciæ… (London: R. Taylor & Co., 1806).

2. Horticultural Society.

3. Michel Tenore (1780–1861), Italian botanist & traveller.

4. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).

5. See Doc. No: 03300.

6. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

7. A nurseryman’s at Fulham. [See Doc. No: 01563].

8. WHFT was elected Member of Parliament for Chippenham in December 1832. He left Parliament at the election of January 1835.