Dear Mr Darwin

With this I send the strawberries. Hybrid wild, (Vesca + Myatt) Hybrid Hautbois, a chance seedling, and the plant which sent up a crown of true hautbois.² The Six plants dug up with balls of earth were raised from (as I thought) a very female hautbois by pollen of Myatt^s British Queen. These seedl^gs. were not to be distinguished from ordinary Hautbois, save that they are quite hermaphrodite, bearing freely. I think one was inclined to female developement. Hyb Hautbois 2^d generation, is the offspring of a nearly barren seedling from Myatt [TIMES] Hautbois. Has not yet flowered.—

At the last moment I am trying to cram in a plant of Fragaria Lucida, a remarkable looking wild sort from, I think, California introduced by M^lle. Vilmorin.³ Enclosed also two or three plants of Cheiranthus, what shall I say the wild yellow Gillyflower of old walls, crossed by Cheiranthus alpinus, forms a very pretty, very fragrant garden flower. The brassicaceous smell of alpinus has imparted a peculiar piquance to the scent of the ordinary wall flower. | R T C