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[indecipherable] aware that your money & my contribution are exhausted. Mr. Shaw told Green that I will furnish the needful advance. I wd do the same for the Peat, but I am not sure that you will sanction the expense which it seems will be increased. I thought that you had peat of a fair quality in some of the Illawarra Mountain swamps, where the Blandfordia plants grow. You give a bad account of Veitchs lot. My poor [indecipherable] orchids have perished with his. Of Leys second supply you say nothing. They had not come to hand of course. I do not expect any Williams Orchids from New Guinea. The Horn like the Tasman is [indecipherable] Australian, beautified no doubt by a completed thoroughly tropical climate & I daresay Dend. Bigibbum will is as good as any thing you will get. There is a good figure
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