From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Francis “Frank” Darwin
Date:
16 January 1889
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.176, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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JDH mentions settling payment to the gardener & coachman. He refers to the showing of the portrait [of JDH] painted by Sir Hubert von Herkomer. JDH is not sure that rowing is good for the health of his daughter Grace Ellen Hooker. JDH is sending Hyacinth a flower from a plant of Shortia galacifolia in bloom at The Camp, it is one of the rarest plants in the world growing only in one spot in the Alleghenies. The plant was given to JDH by [Henry John] Elwes. Mrs Rothey has had another offer on Ribsden but will not accept. Mr Garden counts on going to London. The Duchess of Cambridge is dead. 'Bean' took no notice of Joseph Symonds Hooker's letter.
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JDH thanks Sir William Turner-Thiselton [WTTD] for finding time to look over the proofs of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. After 30 years as editor & 10 years prior to that helping his father with it JDH can be careless. His mind is currently focused on orchids. JDH will try to arrange with the publisher of the magazine, Reeves, to send the lithographs a month in advance so they can be reviewed properly. He notes that errors have also appeared in the BULLETIN. JDH did not think [James Edward Tierney] Aitchison's drawing of Gastrodia was worth publishing but Aitchison did accompany it with an explanation & an anatomist should look at his specimens preserved in spirits. JDH hopes WTTD & Harriet Thiselton-Dyer (nee Hooker) will enjoy their time in Switzerland. An annotation signed D.O. [Daniel Oliver] has been added to the letter stating first that Ed[?] Brown [Nicholas Edward Brown?] would look at the specimens of Gastrodia & later adding that he has examined them himself & found no evidence that they are parasitic themselves, but one of the pseudobulbs was infected by a rhizomorphoid growth, which needs to be investigated.
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JDH discusses an unspecified event attended by Susan & her husband Brian Hodgson. JDH did not attend as he was visiting Sir John Henry Lefroy. JDH & his wife Hyacinth Hooker would like to visit the Hodgsons in Aug. Colonel Lyell is staying with the Hookers in July. Whilst away in Devon & Cornwall JDH missed a visit from Miss Henslow, Frances's sister. In Cornwall JDH saw many plants of Rhododendron hodgsonii thriving, as well as other species, incl. R. falconeri, R.aucklandii, R. argenteum, & R. barbatum.
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