Penllergare ^<1>
Aug^t 30

My dear Henry

I have been looking at the nice plants you have sent me and thank you again for them – One has no name – I enclose a leaf as I do not know it– ^<2>

Is the southernwood leaved Lavender hardy?

Is Androsace lactea better in a cold frame or a greenhouse? I am delighted to have Chorozema – and such a fine strong plant!

We have Helianthemeum Tuberaria on the rockwork very strong, blossoming well – but I shall take your hint and keep some in the cold frame.

I wish you could come and look at our Garden – it is such a pleasure to compare notes and ponder over old favorites and new –

Your Bomarea is to be fresh potted now, and turned out in the Conservatory in the Spring. – it is not a good one – too high – Just now gay with Scarboro’ Lilies & Japan ones in pots

Our Tacsonia Van Voxhemii ^<3> has been brillant[sic] – but now we have a shower of fuschias of all colours – hanging overhead.

Your aff^te cousin
E. Llewelyn

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Notes:

1. Penllergaer, Glamorgan, 5 mi E of Loughor: home of the Llewelyn family.

2. Not located.

3. Named after Jean Baptiste Joseph Van Volxem (1829 - September 1891), an avid plant-hunter resident in Brussels. He first collected this plant near Bogota around 1858 and it became commonly known by 1866. He also collected in Ceylon, China and Japan in 1873-1874 and in Columbia and the United States. In correspondence to Kew in 1878, he described a Chinese substitute for boxwood, an important staple of the wood engraving trade. He established an arboretum near Vilvorde and was helpful to a wide circle of botanical friends. Van Volxem was a Foreign Member of the Royal Horticultural Society of Britain.