Letter written on behalf of Mr Charles Dorrien [landowner in Sussex] to the secretary of the Horticultural Society [Alexander Henderson]

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Title: Letter written on behalf of Mr Charles Dorrien [landowner in Sussex] to the secretary of the Horticultural Society [Alexander Henderson]

Scope & content: Written from Lavant House [West Sussex]

Annotated at the top of the page: 'Amd [?amend] 2£ per 100'

Mr Charles Dorrien wishes to have some dried plants from China collected by Mr Fortune [Robert Fortune]; he is asking Dr Lindley to tell Fortune that these should be 'chiefly ferns' with notes on the growing environment; he assumes the price to be the same as for Mr Hartweg's plants [Karl Theodor Hartweg, Horticultural Society plant collector, who travelled primarily in Mexico; for the papers of Hartweg, 1836-1848, see RHS/Col/7], £1 for 100; 'Mr Dorrien is anxious to have ferns, as he is making a collection of that class of plants'