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parts in contact are concerned. It will be of great 

 importance, as you observed in your last letter, in a 

 case like this, to see if the other parts are afEected — 

 i.e. to get the plant to seed if possible. This, I 

 suppose, can only be done at this late season with so 

 young a plant by putting it in a greenhouse. Per- 

 haps, therefore, you might pot it, as soon as it arrives, 

 and keep it till I go up. If you do not care, to take 

 charge of it altogether, I can then get a home for it 

 somewhere in the South. It will not require a deep 

 pot, for I see that I have cut through the end of one 

 of the roots. It would be as well, before potting, to 

 cut ofE the end of the other root also, so that the one 

 half may not grow longer than the other, and thus 

 perhaps assert an undue amount of influence during 

 the subsequent history of the hybrid. If the plant 

 when you get it, or after potting, shows signs of 

 drooping, I should suggest cKpping off the older 

 leaves to check evaporation : having found this a 

 good plan with beets, itc. 



In the same box with the hybrid there is another 

 carrot. This is for comparison, it having been from 

 the same seed and grafted (upon the crown) at the 

 same time as the originally red half of the hybrid. 



I am doubtful about the potatoes I sent. On 

 looking over a number of ' red flukes,' I find some 

 here and there are mottled. At any rate, I shall try 

 other varieties next year, and not say anything 

 about this doubtful case. 



I forgot to say that the hybrid carrot is the only 

 specimen of longitudinal grafting which I tried with 

 carrots, having been somewhat disheartened with 



