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To M. T. Masters   7 August [1874]

Summary

Discusses flower structures of the hop.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  7 Aug [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.447)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9593

From M. T. Masters   6 August 1874

Summary

Thanks for the monoecious hop. It was the first monstrosity he ever observed.

Contemplates an article in Gardeners’ Chronicle on the horticultural bearing of CD’s fertilisation work.

Will publish note forwarded by CD on a male hop with apparently female flowers (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174). 

Author:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Aug 1874
Classmark:  DAR 171: 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9591
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