To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [before 14 September 1844]
Summary
Referring to a correspondent who had written about Pelargonium plants whose leaves had become regularly edged with white, CD reports that nearly all the young leaves of box-trees he had planted have become symmetrically tipped with white. Though these facts seem trivial, CD believes the first appearance of any peculiarity which tends to become hereditary deserves being recorded.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 14 Sept 1844] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 37, 14 September 1844, pp. 621 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-777 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [before 14 September 1844]
Summary
Asks whether salt and carbonate of lime (in the form of seashells) would act upon each other if slightly moistened and left in great quantities together. The question occurs from CD’s having found in Peru a great bed of recent shells that were mixed with salt, decayed and corroded "in a singular manner". Mentions, as relevant to the value of seashells as manure, that they are dissolved more rapidly by water than any other form of carbonate of lime.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 14 Sept 1844] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 37, 14 September 1844, pp. 628–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-778 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
