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To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 8 November 1862]

Summary

Asks whether T. A. Knight’s tall blue and white marrow peas were raised by Knight himself.

Also asks whether anyone who has saved seed peas grown close to other kinds observed that the succeeding crop came up "untrue" or crossed? CD would expect that such crossing would occasionally happen.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 8 Nov 1862]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 8 November 1862, p. 1052
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3798