Letter from M. Foster [Michael Foster] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from M. Foster [Michael Foster] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/30
Date
3 Sep 1883
Scope & content
Written from Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Manuscript
He thanks Maw for his letter, which he has sent straight to Mr White [Horace Philips White, British consul at Tangier, Morocco] so as to receive any bulbs sooner; he believes Maw is right that Hooker’s [Joseph Dalton Hooker] Iris tingitana is Iris filifolia; Baker [John Gilbert Baker, botanist, keeper of the Kew Herbarium] calls it ‘Iris filifolium latifolium’ [Iris filifolia var. Latifolia]; he wishes to get the pale iris from the hills six miles south of Tangiers [Tangier, Morocco], and asks Maw for a more exact description of its habitat to give to Mr White; he asks if Maw has exhausted the croci of Bulgaria, the Balkan Mountains and the Rhodope Mountains, as a Bulgarian friend of his is off to Philippopolis [Plovdiv, Bulgaria] and will send him plants; if Maw desires anything, his friend will try to get it for him; the Palestinians have made no progress in getting any plants ‘from the Holy Land’; there has been a terrible gale in Shelford which has carried away the last summer flowers. Dated 3 Sep, no year [1883; the subject matter matches letters written in 1883]