U GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES 1875- 



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 the originally red half has become wholly white. 

 The graft was made about three months ago, at which 

 lime 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 

 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 affected — 

 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 off 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 



