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fore I give a short abstract of potato graft hybrids, 

 and I want to know whether I did not send you a 

 reference about beet. Did you look to this, and can 

 you tell me anything about it ? I hope with aU my 

 heart that you are getting on pretty weU with your 

 experiments ; I have been led to think a good deal on 

 the subject, and am convinced of its high importance, 

 though it will take years of hammering before physio- 

 logists will admit that the sexual organs only coUect 

 the generative elements. 



The edition will be pubhshed in November, and 

 then you will see all that I have collected, but I 

 beUeve that you saw all the more important cases. 

 The case of vine in ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' which I 

 sent you I think may only be a bud-variation, not 

 due to grafting. 



I have heard indirectly of your splendid success 

 with nerves of Medusse. We have been at Abinger 

 Hall for a month for rest which I much required, and 

 I saw there the cut-leaved vine, which seems splendid 

 for graft hybridisation. 



Tours very sincerely, 



Ch. Dakwin. 



To G. Darwin, Esq. 



Dunskaith : Jtdy 14, 1875. 



I was very glad to receive your letter, having been 

 previously undecided whether to write and let you 

 know how I am getting on, or to wait until I got a 

 veritable hybrid. 



In one of your letters you advised me to look up 



