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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 September 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
No summary available.
Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.
Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.
Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.
CD will have to make heavy corrections in Expression and Descent if there ever is a new edition of either.
Will soon begin another book [Insectivorous plants].
It and a second one [Cross and self-fertilisation] will sell only "very specially".