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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … to build a hothouse as well. He was persuaded to do so by John Horwood, the gardener of his …
- … with plants.— According to John Claudius Loudon’s Encyclopedia of gardening …
- … apparently refers to the catalogues of a local nurseryman, John Cattell of Westerham, with whom he …
- … a list that Darwin apparently drew up from the catalogue of John Cattell, from whom he had bought …
- … 1863, for five guineas’ worth of plants bought from Cattell, suggesting that he bought at least some …
- … four sheets of identical paper, bearing the watermark date 1860. This may be the list that Darwin …
- … , and Index Londinensis . List of plants from Cattell’s catalogue …
- … London ( Post Office London directory 1863). 2. John Cattell was a florist, nurseryman …
