My dear Dyer.

I know how you are overworked, but I am puzzled about culture of four of the Kew plants.— Please do not write, but on enclosed slip under each name add—“water plant freely” or “keep dry” or “put pot in shallow saucer with water”—or “put pot in deep saucer with water”.—&c. “Hot-house or or Greenhouse”²

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Envelope addressed enclosed.

Have you ever observed that the plants of rather warmer countries than England oftener are protected by bloom than English plants? I ask because I can find only a few wild English plants with bloom, whilst there are a good many in the flower-garden & greenhouse.³

Would Bentham⁴ be a likely man to ask.—