Letter from Auguste van Geert to Walter Jardine, May 1869
- Authors: Van Geert, Auguste , Jardine, Walter
- Date: 1869-05-21 , 2021-09-29
- Subjects: Jardine, Walter , Botanical Gardens -- South Africa , Horticulture -- Belgium
- Type: text , letter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197565 , vital:45887 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
- Description: Jardine Correspondence transcribed by Jean Kelly August 2021. Transcription: Ghent 21st of May 1869. Walter Jardine Esq Cape Town. [Note from Transcriber "I wonder if this is correct. He was in Grahamstown by then."] Dear Sir I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter of the 16th of April and feel really pleased with its contents. I received the Zania in good conditioned and a couple are already starting a good growth. I shall be happy to receive the others plants you mention the probable invoice of, and beg you will receive my best thanks for the trouble. You would very much oblige me, my Dear Sir, by kindly sending a list of some good plants for us which can be had from the Cape or near it, or from any other place you know the means to get at. For instance I should be glad if you could procure me or tell me the way how to get palm seeds from the Seychelles and Mauritius Islands , or any other tropical islands where fine palms are growing. Encephalartos villosus and gracilis, the latter with thread-like linear leaves, are both useful species to me. Can some be had at the gardens? In fact any information will be most thankfully received. Awaiting your earliest kind news. I remain, Dear Sir, / Yours most obediently, pp A Van Geert. / Auguste Van Geert, junior.
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Letter from Auguste van Geert to Walter Jardine, January 1869
- Authors: Van Geert, Auguste , Jardine, Walter
- Date: 1869-01-05 , 2021-09-29
- Subjects: Jardine, Walter , Botanical Gardens -- South Africa , Horticulture -- Belgium
- Type: text , letter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197556 , vital:45886 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
- Description: Jardine Correspondence transcribed by Jean Kelly August 2021. Transcription: Mr Walter Jardine. Grahamstown. Cape of Good hope. Sir, Most likely by the time this note will reach you, you will be in possession of the invoice of Camellias, and I hope in satisfactory condition. With the plants which you intend to return to me in exchange I should much like to have a good lot of bulbs of Disa grandiflora and superba, an orchid which is very likely well known to you and which is said to grow abundantly near the Cape Town. Please try and send me a nice lot of it. Awaiting your further obliging favours, I remain Sir Yours obediently, A Van Geert.
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Letter from Auguste van Geert to Walter Jardine, 1868
- Authors: Van Geert, Auguste , Jardine, Walter
- Date: 1868-11-21 , 2021-09-29
- Subjects: Jardine, Walter , Botanical Gardens -- South Africa , Horticulture -- Belgium
- Type: text , letter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197579 , vital:45888 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
- Description: Jardine Correspondence transcribed by Jean Kelly August 2021. Transcription: Ghent 21st of May 1869. Walter Jardine Esq Cape Town. [Note from Transcriber "I wonder if this is correct. He was in Grahamstown by then."] Dear Sir I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter of the 16th of April and feel really pleased with its contents. I received the Zania in good conditioned and a couple are already starting a good growth. I shall be happy to receive the others plants you mention the probable invoice of, and beg you will receive my best thanks for the trouble. You would very much oblige me, my Dear Sir, by kindly sending a list of some good plants for us which can be had from the Cape or near it, or from any other place you know the means to get at. For instance I should be glad if you could procure me or tell me the way how to get palm seeds from the Seychelles and Mauritius Islands , or any other tropical islands where fine palms are growing. Encephalartos villosus and gracilis, the latter with thread-like linear leaves, are both useful species to me. Can some be had at the gardens? In fact any information will be most thankfully received. Awaiting your earliest kind news. I remain, Dear Sir, / Yours most obediently, pp A Van Geert. / Auguste Van Geert, junior.
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