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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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- … , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, 15 January 1863 ). The decision was evidently prompted …
- … experimentation, and the building of the hothouse early in 1863 marked something of a milestone in …
- … mid-February (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and 15 February [1863] ). It was …
- … a mess of it’ (letter to G. H. Turnbull, [16? February 1863] ). Even before work on the …
- … plants’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). Darwin apparently refers to the catalogues …
- … to Nurserymen’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] ). Darwin agreed to send Hooker his …
- … have from Kew’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ). Darwin probably gave his list …
- … a school-boy’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863] ). On 20 February, the plants from Kew …
- … like to ask for’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 February 1863] ). He had, he confessed to Hooker, …
- … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [22 February 1863] in DAR 210.6: 109). There were other …
- … on cultivation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] ). Darwin derived enormous …
- … each leaf’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin’s aesthetic appreciation of …
- … which they belonged. In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , he announced that the plants …
- … worth trial’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 February [1863] ). Darwin’s hothouse became an …
- … had ‘4 houses of different temperatures’ (letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March [1869] , …
- … foreground, with pipes clearly visible, is the hothouse of 1863. Over many years, the …
- … book gives an entry under ‘Science’, dated 28 March 1863, for five guineas’ worth of plants bought …
- … not supply (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 February 1863] ). However, it can be dated with …
- … this list and in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863]. Secondly, he mentioned in this list …
- … to him by Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ), since many of the species listed …
- … from Kew. Darwin said in the letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] that he had received 165 plants …
- … Get Edwardsia tetraptera mentioned by Treviranus Honey. 8 Acropera …
- … at Clapton, London ( Post Office London directory 1863). 2. John Cattell was a florist, …
- … p. 10. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and n. 19. 9. Catasetum …
- … C. hæmatostigma. …