Mount Edgcumbe ^<1>

Friday June 25^th 1852

Dearest Henry

I cannot help sending you a specimen of the Eucalyptus – for fear it should be out of bloom when you come. What curious buds! & unnatural leaves! The tree is now nearly 40 f^t high. In the same box is a flower of a shrub, of w^h it appears I gave the seed – when, I know not. It is ab^t 3 feet high, n^r the Eucalyptus above the sea. Please tell us the name – & also the name of the red Ledum, given once upon a time by Uncle W^m. ^<2> The Pimelia I merely send for its’ beauty –

Y^r aff^te Sister

Caroline

The Geranium specimen is considered a beauty.

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Notes:

1. Mt Edgecumbe, near Plymouth: seat of the Earl of Mt Edgcumbe

2. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.