From George Maw 18 June 1866
Benthall Hall, | nr. Broseley.
June 18th. 1866.
Dear Sir
Some months ago you asked me whether any examples of bud sports had come under my notice1 & think therefore you will like to have the accompanying fragment of a Fern-leaved Beech bearing a branch of the ordinary form of foliage2 It is from the garden of Mr W De Crewdson of Helme Lodge Nr Kendal3 The tree I am informed is about twenty years old, an occasional leaf of intermediate character occurs here & there, but for the most part the branches bearing the two forms are well marked & distinct.
Believe me Dr Sir | very truly yrs | George Maw
C Darwin Esq.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Mitchell, Alan. 1996. Alan Mitchell’s trees of Britain. London: HarperCollins.
Post Office directory of Northumberland: Post Office directory of Westmoreland, Cumberland, Northumberland, and Durham. London: Kelly and Co. 1858.
Summary
In response to CD’s request for bud-sports, he sends a piece of a fern-leaved beech.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5124
- From
- George Maw
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Benthall Hall
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 101
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5124,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5124.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14