LETTER I 



Blossom of the Fig Letter from E. G. Baker, Esq. Similarity 

 of the Dorstenia The Sunflower Fertilisation of the Fig 

 Letter from the Bishop of Reading Anecdote of a Clergyman 

 and Tomtits. 



i~()th January, 1894. 



DEAR MARCO The following extract from 

 a letter that I have received from Mr. E. G. 

 Baker, of the Royal Gardens, Kew, on the 

 subject of the blossom of the fig may . be 

 interesting to you, so I send it together 

 with his drawing. 



You say that you have been unable 

 to find the flowers. As I happened to have 

 by me a book giving a fair representation I 

 thought, perhaps, it might interest you if I 

 made a rough copy. The fig is the recep- 



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