Volume 58: Sir George Macleay correspondence, 1848-1880: No. 427
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[Page 427]
of reaching you in better order than any of the preliminary lots. Green really has done his best, & if you can manage to say an encouraging word to him in return I shall be not too happy to be the medium of communication. I only trust that circumstances may make it possible [indecipherable] lot of things are I believe all alive. The only two plants doubtful are what I raised [indecipherable] for the [indecipherable]. I find now that I can get the same double peach from Italy. I saw them there in exquisite beauty. My [indecipherable] are coming up strong and all likely to blossom. The [indecipherable] came up but are not strong [indecipherable] not bloom. My Platyclinis are dead alas! alas! Such noble specimens too. Gleichenia & other ferns for the most part alive and so are the Dendrobes of both