This morning I was rummaging for a mate - a sock's mate, that is - when I found something much more interesting: a letter from Harry Hall which had somehow been separated from its boxed companions. The letter dates from January 1984 and covered a variety of topics, from Conophytum burgeri and its possible bulldozing, to the local weather (35°C in Meadowridge, Cape Town, hot enough to boil Harry's lettuce crop -we had a running discourse on variants of the old-fashioned cultivar, Black-seeded Simpson), to white bilobes ("The same day I collected C.candidum I also gathered C.ecarinatum & vars") and the flowers of C. fulleri. "Your wish to have a photo of C.fulleri is fulfilled. On my last year at Kirstenbosch a plant given me by Roy Littlewood shortly before his untimely death [October 1967] flowered well & I took two quite identical photographs of it in Feb. 1968. He collected it amongst those hot dry hills south of the Orange at Goodhouse. What do you think? It seems to match the description. So it is a summer flowerer, like intrepidum, praecox, etc."
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