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To Gardeners’ Chronicle 3 January [1877]
Summary
Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 January 1877, p. 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10769 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 20 January 1877, p. 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10797 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 19 February [1877]
Summary
Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1877] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 24 February 1877, p. 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10854 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
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