To Gardeners’ Chronicle 2 July [1863]
Summary
Asks M. J. Berkeley to identify the microscopical spherical bodies CD found in drops of yellowish rain-water that fell on his garden in a brief shower.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 2 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 18 July 1863, p. 675 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4230 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 15 August 1863]
Summary
Reports on the appearance, in a gravel walk near his house, of an orchid, Epipactis latifolia, never seen in his neighbourhood before. Asks whether a seed could have been blown from a distance and germinated during a season when the walk was neglected.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 15 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 15 August 1863, p. 773 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4269 |
To [Gardeners’ Chronicle] [after 27 August 1863]
Summary
[Roland] Trimen of the Cape of Good Hope sends evidence that a moth [Achaea chamaeleon] is capable of perforating the skin of a peach with its delicate proboscis. Have any readers observed moths or butterflies sucking any fruit of which the skin was not previously broken?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [after 27 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 70: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4279F |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 29 August 1863]
Summary
On the cruelty of setting steel traps to catch vermin. Requests suggestions for putting an end to the practice. [This item is mentioned in Correspondence 11: 781 n.6. (Appendix IX)]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 29 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4282 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
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