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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 334
Summary:

Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
8 July [1875]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library (Rare Books MSS Acc. 324)
Summary:

Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
10 July 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.466); DAR 148: 336
Summary:

Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 337
Summary:

JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project