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[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] Walker sends Hooker a few seeds in the hope that they arrive fresh. She wanted to send the whole seed vessel of the little Passiflora, but it is not sufficiently dry. She cannot help but think that the colouring matter it contains might be valuable as a paint or dye and writes that she sends a piece of paper smeared with it. She is sure that if found useful, the plant could be easily cultivated there: the plants she has transplanted have thrived. In the parcel, seed pods of Vanilla are also sent, of which she sent a drawing. They have never seen the plant or flower that bears the long pods of the vanilla. Walker feared that, by keeping them until the Colonel's plants were dry enough to send, there would be less chance of their vegetating. In September she dispatched drawings. She asks Hooker to give the seeds of the Nepenthes to Dr Graham who is anxious to see them. She has sent them frequently before but has never heard of them vegetating. Page 1 of 4.

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[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] Walker sends Hooker a few seeds in the hope that they arrive fresh. She wanted to send the whole seed vessel of the little Passiflora, but it is not sufficiently dry. She cannot help but think that the colouring matter it contains might be valuable as a paint or dye and writes that she sends a piece of paper smeared with it. She is sure that if found useful, the plant could be easily cultivated there: the plants she has transplanted have thrived. In the parcel, seed pods of Vanilla are also sent, of which she sent a drawing. They have never seen the plant or flower that bears the long pods of the vanilla. Walker feared that, by keeping them until the Colonel's plants were dry enough to send, there would be less chance of their vegetating. In September she dispatched drawings. She asks Hooker to give the seeds of the Nepenthes to Dr Graham who is anxious to see them. She has sent them frequently before but has never heard of them vegetating. Page 1 of 4.

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[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] Walker sends Hooker a few seeds in the hope that they arrive fresh. She wanted to send the whole seed vessel of the little Passiflora, but it is not sufficiently dry. She cannot help but think that the colouring matter it contains might be valuable as a paint or dye and writes that she sends a piece of paper smeared with it. She is sure that if found useful, the plant could be easily cultivated there: the plants she has transplanted have thrived. In the parcel, seed pods of Vanilla are also sent, of which she sent a drawing. They have never seen the plant or flower that bears the long pods of the vanilla. Walker feared that, by keeping them until the Colonel's plants were dry enough to send, there would be less chance of their vegetating. In September she dispatched drawings. She asks Hooker to give the seeds of the Nepenthes to Dr Graham who is anxious to see them. She has sent them frequently before but has never heard of them vegetating. Page 1 of 4.