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Letter from Frederick V.[Victor] Dickins to [Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker]; from Yokohama, [Japan]; 23 Sep 1877; four page letter comprising two images; folio 162
Date Updated: 15 October 2012
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Archives: Directors' Correspondence
Resource Type
Letters (Correspondence)
Creator
Dickins, Frederick Victor
Date
18770923
Source
Library and Archives at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Relation
Directors' Correspondence 150/162
Attribution
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Description
The material Hooker enclosed in his note of 20 Mar marked 'Japan flax' is, according to the Japanese to whom Dickins has shown it, a very inferior and half prepared hemp fibre. He has compared it to samples of hemp grown in Japan where it is a common article of commerce. He is afraid that he cannot procure for Hooker any articles in wood of Koyamaki [Sciadopitys], but he can probably get a piece of the wood. He is getting together samples of paper and will endeavour to obtain the names of the plants. He will also try to procure seeds of Edgeworthia and early next year will send plenty of specimens of the florescence. It is cultivated in great quantities in various parts of the country as Kodzu and Mitsumata. Dickins will attend to Hooker's other commissions with pleasure. He would have attended to them sooner but he has been absent from Yokohama for some time. Next year, he proposes making a trip down the islands and hopes to make an interesting collection. He recently went up Fuji and was astonished to find an Arabis and Cnicus growing among the cinders almost up to the summit [12,000 to 13,000 feet]. He also saw high up [6000 to 7000 feet], large specimens of an Orobanche among the cinders and scoriae. He believes the Cryptomeria to be introduced despite its commonness, as he has never found it in any of the natural forest. He was struck by the poverty in species of Glumaceae. Annotated. Pages 1 and 2 of 4.
Identifier
KDCAS3932
Collection name
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Archives: Directors' Correspondence
Format extent (length/size)
2 images
Pages
2
Date Updated: 3 February 2012
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Archives: Directors' Correspondence
Resource Type
Letters (Correspondence)
Creator
Dickins, Frederick Victor
Date
1877-09-23
Source
Library and Archives at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Relation
Directors' Correspondence 150/162
Attribution
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Description
The material Hooker enclosed in his note of 20 Mar marked 'Japan flax' is, according to the Japanese to whom Dickins has shown it, a very inferior and half prepared hemp fibre. He has compared it to samples of hemp grown in Japan where it is a common article of commerce. He is afraid that he cannot procure for Hooker any articles in wood of Koyamaki [Sciadopitys], but he can probably get a piece of the wood. He is getting together samples of paper and will endeavour to obtain the names of the plants. He will also try to procure seeds of Edgeworthia and early next year will send plenty of specimens of the florescence. It is cultivated in great quantities in various parts of the country as Kodzu and Mitsumata. Dickins will attend to Hooker's other commissions with pleasure. He would have attended to them sooner but he has been absent from Yokohama for some time. Next year, he proposes making a trip down the islands and hopes to make an interesting collection. He recently went up Fuji and was astonished to find an Arabis and Cnicus growing among the cinders almost up to the summit [12,000 to 13,000 feet]. He also saw high up [6000 to 7000 feet], large specimens of an Orobanche among the cinders and scoriae. He believes the Cryptomeria to be introduced despite its commonness, as he has never found it in any of the natural forest. He was struck by the poverty in species of Glumaceae. Annotated. Pages 1 and 2 of 4.
Identifier
KDCAS3932
Collection name
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Archives: Directors' Correspondence
Format extent (length/size)
2 images
Pages
2
Image 1 of 2
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