From a lady [before 17 July 1875]1
I think it possible that the extinction of a species may interest you. The Macartney Rose, of which I have a tree, has all over England simultaneously ceased to produce any fructifying buds for grafting or seed-vessels after the Rose.2 Finding my own dying out, I tried in various places, with the same result.
Footnotes
Summary
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10070F
- From
- Unidentified
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- Gardeners’ Chronicle, 17 July 1875, p. 78
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10070F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10070F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23