Volume 58: Sir George Macleay correspondence, 1848-1880: No. 469
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[Page 469]
hope to see the blossom of two plants of D. Palmeri, which [indecipherable] has [indecipherable] about 12 inches high. I shall be glad by & bye to get the plants of Dend. bigibbum & Dend. [indecipherable], which I take it is D. Sumneri from what you say. They are very beautiful, but I do not care for D. [indecipherable] or D. Johannis. I have now about 420 different orchids all doing well & all likely to flower within the next 6 months, about 10 are in blossom now. Some I have had in presents, but I have laid out in all less than £100 on Orchids. I am putting up another house, it cost £300, 60 ft. by 20, with a tank 8 feet wide down the centre for Aquatics. I shall then have in all upwards of 4000 sq. feet but already I begin to feel I shall want more. I am now very busy in planting more borders &