To J. D. Hooker 21 [July 1866]
Down.
21st
My dear H.
If you can name enclosed, I shall be grateful. By gardening books I conclude it is L. hirsutus; according them it cannot be L. pilosus.—1 The standard is often reddish purple instead of white. I sent to nursery garden, whence I bought seed,2 & could only hear that it was “the common blue Lupine” The man saying “he was no scholard & did not know Latin & that parties who make experiments ought to find out the names.—”
Yours affect | C. Darwin
He might have added & not trouble their friends.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Asks help in naming a lupin, enclosed. Nurseryman said parties who make experiments should find the names. He might have added "and not trouble their friends".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5162
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 293
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5162,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5162.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
