Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Praise for Orchids.
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Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Praise for Orchids.
Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.
Thanks for CD’s experimental suggestions. Will count seeds of hybrid crosses.
Requests suggestions for Edinburgh Botanical Society expedition to British Columbia.
On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.
Has done Primula polyanthus experiment CD suggested.
Bryanthus erectus, said by [D. D.?] Cunningham to be a hybrid, has been found wild in North America.
CD is right on heterostyly in Primula. High praise. Has confirmed it with Primula polyanthus.
Sends sprig of Linum luteum corymbiflorum [?]. CD is right about its being dimorphic.
Will try some odd strawberry crosses this summer.
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
Offers to send Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed [1750].
Encloses a letter [16 May 1867] from John Anderson, a nurseryman, giving information on budding of blotched ash at the nursery.
Has crossed pods of Arabis blepharophylla larger than normal ones.
Sends Telliamed as gift.
Details of Arabis crosses. Seed-pods of A. blepharophylla and A. soyeri crosses are longer and wider than those of either species.
Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.