TO J.D.HOOKER.

Down, April 19th [1855].
Thank you for your list of R.S.candidates, which will be very useful to me.
I have thought a good deal about my salting experiments (321/1.

For an account of Darwin's experiments on the effect of salt water on the germination of seeds, see "Life and Letters," II., page 54.

In April he wrote to the "Gardeners' Chronicle" asking for information, and his results were published in the same journal, May 26th and November 24th, 1855; also in the "Linn.

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