From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 128
Summary:
Pea self-fertilisation: has forty-five varieties growing side by side.
Describes seed-salting experiments: e.g., immersion in tank filled with snow. Reports some successful germinations.
Made list of naturalised plants from Asa Gray’s Manual [of Botany] to calculate the proportions of the great families.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
