From John Pearson 23 November 1858
Kinlet near Bewdley
Novr. 23d. 1858
To C. Darwin Esqr. | Downe Bromley Kent
Sir,
I humbly beg to call your attention to one point in the culture of the Kidney Bean, which I think you have omitted in your most interesting article “On the Agency of Bees” in the Gardeners’ Chronicle,1 & that is, how is it that our forced “French Beans” set their blossoms on a hot brick flue in the winter months, when no insect is on the wing? as to Thrips we kill them by “smoking”.
I am, Sir your humble | sert. | John Pearson Gardener &c | to W. L. Childe Esqr. | Kinlet | near Bewdley | Worcesters—
P.S. I don’t see the Chronicle till a week after date
Footnotes
Summary
Refers to CD’s article "Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 19–25] and asks how forced beans flower in winter when no insect is on the wing.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2370
- From
- John Pearson
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kinlet near Bewdley
- Source of text
- DAR 77: 148
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2370,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
