My Dear Sir/

By this post I trust you will receive a tin box in which are some flowers of the Cytissus purpureus elongatus²   You will also find two “plates” or “shields” with the buds cut out   these buds are of the variety of Negundo fraxinifolia with variegated leaves   I did this in spring hoping to obtain a stain as occurred in the purple Laburnum³

I enclose a leaf of this variety & one from the stock below the bud; four buds were cut out on four separate stocks but no stain has taken place either above or below the buds

I am Dear Sir | Y^rs. very truly | Th^os. Rivers