From George Henslow 3 March 1870
8. Robertson Terrace | Hastings
March 3/70.
My dear Mr Darwin,
I have been going to write to you some time ago—but several things intervened—to thank you for yr letter containing directions about an experiment on Lapageria.1 I found it was rather late in the season—& could not get more than about 20 blossoms fit for trial. I, however, dusted about half with their own pollen & the rest with pollen from difft. fls. & cut out their stamens. The perianths of all faded much the same time. & the pistils have all remained on, but at present look all alike. Mr H2 tells me that they do not commence swelling under 6 months, so that I cannot ascertain the result for some time to come. I hope to repeat the expt. more fully next season when the blossoms are abundt. The white Var is a doubtful affair—its history is unknown Mr H. says he believes it has sent forth red blossoms in some body else’s possession!
All his plants are from cuttings: but seedlings are more profitable if reard with a little care.
Yrs faithfully | Geo Henslow
P.S. I have been sent down here to ‘rusticate’ by the Metropoln Ry Co,3 for giving me concussion of brain in an accident— getting all right again
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Experiments with Lapageria.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7126
- From
- George Henslow
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Hastings
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 171
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7126,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7126.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18