From Samuel Wells 25 November 1858
Holme Lacy Gardens
Novr. 25th. 1858
Sir
In reply to your Question “were the Beans in the first or second year planted near any other varieties”1
I have to state that there is an uncertainty about the exact distance in the first year but it could not be more than 100 yards as the Kitchen Garden is a square of 2 Acres— in the second year it is all but certain they were planted side by side with my earliest crop of Longpods and Mazagans—so that a further departure from the Original may be expected in the produce of those sent— I may just say that I have within the Garden from 8. to 12. hives of Bees every season
Yours faithfully | S. Wells
Footnotes
Summary
Replies to CD’s question on whether beans in first or second year were planted near any other varieties.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2374
- From
- Samuel Wells
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Holme Lacy
- Source of text
- DAR 77: 146
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2374,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2374.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7