My dear Sir,

I am extremely glad to hear a good account of your experiments; & I shall much like to see your published report, whenever you can send me a copy. I have no practical knowledge about potatoes, but the specimens which you have sent seem to me & my gardener very fine & healthy ones. The case of the black potatoes is very curious, & I am particularly surprised at the flowers being odoriferous & being visited by many humble-bees, for this according to my experience is a rather unusual event.¹ I presume the extraordinary amount of bud variation (as I call all non-sexual variation) is due to the parents having been recently crossed.² It would be of no use to send the potatoes to Kew, for they have so many subjects to attend to they will not undertake anything fresh of such a nature.³ But I have today planted & labelled the two varieties & will hereafter report the result to you. I have been working rather too hard of late & leave home on May 6^th for 3 weeks rest.⁴ No one can wish more heartily than I do for your complete success

my dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin