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months there has been so much rain & east wind that it seems as if we had had no summer at all - Our flower beds are just now (in the middle of Augst) beginning to look gay which is rather tantalizing because every body is [indecipherable] away to the sea side, so that my flowers will bloom [indecipherable]! I had a letter from by the last mail, and am sorry to find he is in such ill health - he sent me the beautiful Camellias last June, which altho' not very double are fine varieties & quite different in foliage from any I have seen before. I wonder if hey were his own seedlings? - Whilst on the subject of flowers, I much like you that we have
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