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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 990 



You will also be able to have a garden, and to be 

 ■within easy reach of the higher ranges of moun- 

 tains where hosts of new insects and molluscs re- 

 main for you to discover! As you will treat the 

 poor niggers as "men and brothers," you will 

 have no diiiiculty in getting any servants you re- 

 quire. . . . 



In the following year Dr. Wallace himself 

 thought of visiting Jamaica, and wrote : 



Should you see any nice little cot to let in some 

 nice place in the mountains, with plenty of rock 

 and forest near by, let us know, and if we can let 

 our house here for 6 months we may possibly 

 come and be renovated by the glorious sun of 

 Jamaica. 



In 1893, after I had gone to New Mexico, 

 Dr. Wallace wrote (Sept. 10) : 



I and wife went to the Lakes for a month in 

 July and August, — our first visit there. I was de- 

 lighted both with the scenery and the glacial phe- 

 nomena. The mountains are very precipitous, 

 with fine bold outlines and grand precipices, and 

 their summits, at 3,000 feet, quite as grand ex- 

 amples of mountain structure and of denudation 

 as 12,000 or 14,000 feet peaks in the Rockies! 



The years passed by, bringing good and ill 

 fortune, and it was not until June, 1904, that 

 I again saw Dr. Wallace. He had moved from 

 Parkstone to Broadstone, where he had built 

 a house in an ideal spot, surrounded by a beau- 

 tiful garden, and with a small greenhouse 

 annexed. Adjacent to the garden is a sort of 

 miniature forest ; " this," he said, " we call 

 the tulgey wood." Every morning he went out 

 early, to see what flowers had opened, and to 

 pick the strawberries. His enthusiasm over 

 the flowers was unbounded; as he himself said, 

 the passage of years had increased instead of 

 dulling his love of natural beauty. We were 

 shown the new hybrid roses, and especially the 

 rockeries, where many beautiful alpines were 

 growing to perfection. One day we all went 

 to Corfe Castle, and Dr. Wallace, in spite of 

 his age, was able to climb the hill on which 

 that ruin stands, and examine every part of it. 



In subsequent years my wife and I fre- 

 quently heard about the garden, sometimes 

 from Dr., sometimes from Mrs. Wallace. They 

 sent us seeds of Anchusa and old-fashioned 



English pinks, which have done very well in 

 our garden at Boulder; we sent Rosa stellata 

 and the new red sunflower, both of which were 

 first grown in England by the Wallaces. On 

 June 26, 1911, soon after the publication of 

 " The World of Life," Dr. Wallace wrote : 



After the hard labor of my book, and the flood 

 of correspondence about it, chiefly from admirers, 

 — I am taking relaxation in a new rook and hog 

 garden, which I have been making, and especially 

 in growing as many as I can of the lovely genus 

 Primula, especially the flne new species recently 

 discovered in the mountains of China and the 

 Himalayas. These I am growing as much as pos- 

 sible from seed, as their beauty is only shown in 

 groups or masses; and I have already got alto- 

 gether about 40 species (chiefly presents from 

 Kew, Edinburgh, Dublin, etc.). I am very anxious 

 to get yo%r very remarkable and fine Primula 

 Mushyi from New Mexico, and in the hope that 

 your university may have a botanical garden, or 

 that some of your botanists may grow it; I shall 

 greatly prize some seed gathered and posted in a 

 letter as soon as the capsules are mature. Seed of 

 the Californian P. snffruticosa and the Coloradan 

 P. Parryi will also be very welcome, as well as of 

 any other American species, if such there are. 



P. rushyi I had never obtained at any time; 

 the allusion to my species was probably due to 

 some recollection of the equally fine B. ellisiae, 

 which it was impossible to procure. We did, 

 however, obtain some roots of P. paiTyi, and 

 Dr. Wallace wrote: 



I have received a very nice little parcel of fine 

 roots of the handsome Primula Parryi, which I 

 saw growing luxuriantly near Kelso 's cabin, be- 

 low Gray's Peak, at 11,500 feet, and which I hope 

 to see in flower again next spring, as I have given 

 it a place where it can get its roots in water, as 

 it did there, on the margin of the stream.^ 



In the same letter he says : 



About two months back was much surprised and 

 pleased to have a visit from Miss Eastwood, my 

 companion in our trip to Gray's Peak and Grigsly 

 Gulch, in July, 1887, where we saw the American 

 Alpine flora at the snow-line in perfection. 



Then again : 



Answering letters, reading the papers, mags, 

 and books, with a lot of novels fills up my time, 

 = Litt., December 17, 1911. 



