From M. T. Masters 6 August 1874
The Gardeners’ Chronicle Office, | 41, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. | London
August 6 1874
My dear Sir/
I am greatly obliged for the monœcious hop which has a special interest for me as a similar instance was I think the very first monstrosity that attracted my attention as far back as 1852— It was put into my hands by my Father to make a drawing for him which was published in Gard: Chron of that year with a note from him—1
The matter I remember had special interest as he was at that time sending hop-sets to India through Dr. Royle and I believe he took pains to send some monœcious sets to India— Something is said about the matter in Royle’s Materia Medica (Voce Hop) which I have not at hand—2
I shall publish your enclosure & reproduce the original cut to wh. I have alluded3
Should you object to my publishing some time hence in the G. C. your portrait together with an article I have in contemplation showing the bearing of your observations on fertilisation &c &c on practical horticulture —It would necessarily be some time hence as just now I am overburdened with work4
With many thanks | faithfully yrs | Maxwell T. Masters
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
OED: The Oxford English dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970. A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary. 4 vols. Edited by R. W. Burchfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1972–86. The Oxford English dictionary. 2d edition. 20 vols. Prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. Oxford English dictionary additional series. 3 vols. Edited by John Simpson et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993–7.
Summary
Thanks for the monoecious hop. It was the first monstrosity he ever observed.
Contemplates an article in Gardeners’ Chronicle on the horticultural bearing of CD’s fertilisation work.
Will publish note forwarded by CD on a male hop with apparently female flowers (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9591
- From
- Maxwell Tylden Masters
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Gardeners’ Chronicle
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 85
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9591,” accessed on 20 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9591.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22