From R. T. Clarke [after 27 November 1862]1
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 Myatts British Queen. These seedlgs. 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 2d 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 Mlle. 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
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Gay, Jacques Etienne. 1857. Recherches sur les caractères de la végétation du fraisier et sur la distribution géographique de ses espèces, avec la description de deux nouvelles. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Botanique) 4th ser. 8: 185–208.
Summary
Sends strawberries.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3837
- From
- Richard Trevor Clarke
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 161.2: 167
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp †
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3837,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3837.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10