Dear and honoured Sir

Finally I can send you the copies of my notices on the potato-graft-hybrid and on the apples I spoke of in my last letter. You will see that they contain not much more than I wrote you before but I think you will like to have the drawings.¹ The two potatoes have produced by this time large bushes in my garden and I am very curious what kind of knolls I shall raise from them. I have tried to repeat the experiment with the same and three other varieties of potatoes, but I fear without success⁠⟨⁠. The⁠⟩⁠ plants do not look very healthy and very likely will produce only knolls of the implanted variety. When the graft-hybrids make flowers I shall try to fertilize them in different ways, of course I shall intercross their parents too.

I adjoin a copy of a paper on some new Saprolegnieae and Syzygites, and I have pointed out—as I cannot expect you to read my description all over—some passages that perhaps will be of some interest for you.²

From a short review of the second part of your new book I saw that it must contain a great many things of high interest for me and as you had promised so kindly to send me the german translation I was waiting for it every day, but it appears that Mr Schweizerbart has not finished it as yet.³

This spring has been very bad ⁠⟨⁠for⁠⟩⁠ observation in our country, the winter lasted very long, and then it got warm so suddenly that most of the flowers came out and faded away in a few days, so the notices I have made on some things are not worth mentioning.

Now I must say Good bye and remain | Dear Sir | yours | respectfully | Hildebrand