From J. D. Hooker 12 March 1878
Royal Gardens Kew
March 12/78
My dear Darwin
I have gone over your draft very carefully & written to Farrer expressing my opinion that Mr Torbits plan should have a trial, & is a fit subject for Govt. aid.1 I have slightly modified what I said about the Liberia Coffee, since it has lately been found to be attacked by the Hemileia a parasitic Fungus like the Pernospora of Potato as badly as ordinary Coffees, but it has resisted the fly.2 The reason is this, that the hard cuticle is an obstacle to the “fly” which has to gnaw through it before it commences its ravages, whereas the Hemileia, like the Peronospora enters by the stomata, & the stomata of one Coffee are like those of another.
Ever affec yrs | Jos D Hooker
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bary, Anton de. 1876. Researches into the nature of the potato-fungus—Phytophthora infestans. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 2d ser. 12: 239–69.
Summary
Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.
Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11417
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 105–6
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11417,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11417.xml