Sunday
July 3d
My dear Henry
I am very much obliged to you for sending specimens of your vetches from Lacock garden & I should like to have the dwarf Astragalus very much. the L. hirsutus thrives well here & is much admired, Mamma saves the seed most diligently and raises some plants every year. We have also another plant of the vetch tribe from you which is an uneasy plant, very restless it seems as if it was always trying to find a better place! I shall enclose it for you to name. – We have the curious Arum (you gave it us) Uncle Wm calls it A. tenerifolium we think when it is in flower it looks like a slow worm lying on the earth. The little sedum we have lost & I should very much like to have some again at some future time it looked so pretty at Lacock I remember it well.
Euphorbias certainly do not like this place with the exception of one or two annual sorts which give me, some trouble to weed up! –
Uncle Wm has just left us he is gone to Clemenstone & from thence he will go to Penllergare in due time. he is much too late for their show of Rhododendrons which have been splendid I am told, but he must admire the place & I daresay will find many things to interest him in the garden there –
We are very fond of the Spire?, I think it may be seen in almost every one’s garden where there is room for it. – The Alpine Garden you talk of on the top of our hill would be a failure I fear even with 4 walls! –
Why did not you say one word about Cousins old & young when I asked so many times about your dear little party & their good Mother. Mind you give my love to all
I am your affate
Coz Mary