From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1875
Kew
Oct 19/75
Dear Darwin
Imantophyllum are quite greenhouse plants. Keep them cool & not too wet in winter & if well potted in Spring they will flower superbly.1
There is some mistake in calling the Paritium a Cistus. It is the Hibiscus tiliaceus L, a name now adopted Paritium being a section of Hibiscus.2
P.S. I see it is Hibiscus in the work from which the Extract is taken.3
Ever aff yrs | Jos D Hooker
I am horridly ashamed of myself for forgetting to enclose this, & fear I have put you to the expense of a Telegraph message— I thought you would be in a hurry to answer Tait & so telegraphed that you might know his address4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Fryxell, Paul A. 2001. Talipariti (Malvaceae), a segregate from Hibiscus. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 23: 225–70.
Kieve, Jeffrey L. 1973. The electric telegraph: a social and economic history. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10205
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 40–1
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10205,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10205.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23