To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
July 9th
My dear Dyer.
I know how you are overworked, but I am puzzled about culture of four of the Kew plants.— Please do not write, but on enclosed slip under each name add—“water plant freely” or “keep dry” or “put pot in shallow saucer with water”—or “put pot in deep saucer with water”.—&c. “Hot-house or or Greenhouse”2
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Envelope addressed enclosed.
Have you ever observed that the plants of rather warmer countries than England oftener are protected by bloom than English plants? I ask because I can find only a few wild English plants with bloom, whilst there are a good many in the flower-garden & greenhouse.3
Would Bentham4 be a likely man to ask.—
Footnotes
Summary
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11043
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11043,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11043.xml