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were too young to do anything with this year, but I 

 hear from my cousin, who has charge of them, that 

 they are doing well. They certainly have very extra- 

 ordinary leaves. 



This year I never expected to be more than one 

 in which to gain experience, for embryo grafting, 

 as it has never been tried by anybody, cannot be 

 learned about except by experiments. But as I am 

 a young man yet, and hope to do a good deal of 

 ' hammering,' I shall not let Pangenesis alone until 

 I feel quite sure that it does not admit of being any 

 further driven home by experimental work ; and even 

 if I never get positive results, I shall always continue 

 to believe in the theory. 



I am very sorry to hear that you ' much needed 

 rest,' and do earnestly hope that you will not work 

 too hard over the new edition of one of the most 

 laborious treatises in our language — a treatise to 

 which we always refer for every kind of information 

 that we cannot find anywhere else. 



Dunskaith: November 7. 



I have to-day sent you a beautifully successful 

 graft. It is of a red and white carrot, each bisected 

 longitudinally, and two of the opposite halves joined. 

 You will see that the union is very intimate, and 

 that tTie originally red half has become wholly white. 

 The graft was made about three months ago, at which 

 time the carrots were very small, but the colours very 

 decided. I think, therefore, that unless red carrots 

 ever turn into white ones — which, I suppose, is absurd 

 — the specimen I send is a graft-hybrid so far as the 



