From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 169
Summary:
Sends curious, coloured pea seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends curious, coloured pea seeds.
Replies to CD’s inquiry about cross-breeds of strawberries [Collected papers 2: 70]. Has been crossing for years.
Sends strawberries.
Encloses strawberry blossoms used in his crossing experiments.
Observations on Gossypium varieties.
Wants to publish his observation on colour changes in Matthiola seeds.
Has been crossing cotton.
Approves of C. V. Naudin and Max Wichura.
Solicits CD’s support for the newly set up Royal Horticultural Society’s Scientific Committee.
Very pleased that he was put into CD’s book [Variation 1: 352].
Sends "hybridising pincers" of his own making.