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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
21 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2)
Summary:

Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
4 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 92: A38–9
Summary:

Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 252
Summary:

Will send English edition [of Variation] when available.

Mentions revisions in second issue concerning graft-hybrids.

Asks for Euryale seed for experiment.

Discusses fertility of crossed and self-fertilised plants.

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Darwin Correspondence Project