To Gardeners’ Chronicle [c. 27 April 1853]
Summary
Solicits information about the kind of syphon required to convey water from a proposed large water tank to existing smaller ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [c. 27 Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 19, 7 May 1853, p. 302 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516A |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [27 March 1844]
Summary
Writes to correct a statement made in his 1837 paper "On the formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53]. He should have said that marl was put on the field 30 years ago, not 80. Observations made on a visit to the field showed that worms had undermined the marl spread on the field at a faster rate than previously reported.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [27 Mar 1844] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 14, 6 April 1844, p. 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-743 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 8 October 1864]
Summary
Asks anyone who possesses a treatise on gardening, or an almanac, one or two centuries old, to look up what date is given as the proper period for sowing scarlet runners or dwarf French beans. CD wants to ascertain whether these plants can now be sown earlier than was formerly the case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 8 Oct 1864] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1864): 965 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4629 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 21 May [1855]
Summary
Reports on his experiments on action of sea-water on seeds and the bearing of his investigations on the theory of centres of creation and Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions to account for distribution of organic forms. CD’s experiments confirm germination powers were retained after 42 days’ immersion by seven out of eight kinds of seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 21 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 21, 26 May 1855, pp. 356–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1684 |
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