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you will have every reason to be pleased with the arrangement, wh. to confess the truth I ought to have thought of before.  Enclosed you will find a list of what I have already purchased for you.  I am on the outlook for a vessel to send them by, as they are in good order for transmission.  I should state that not only are they fine plants which will flower at once, but there are more than one plant in at least one half the specimens.  I have bought a good number of Disas very cheap some of which I intended for you but Green, the gardener aforesaid strongly objects to them being sent in these present conditions.  I think that I am on the right track now to suit you.  The [indecipherable] who is leaving the Straits for India, which I am very sorry for, for he knows them
 

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