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To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 11 August 1866]

Summary

Asks readers to examine the flowers of Oxalis bowei to observe where the summits of the branching stigmas stand with respect to the two sets of anthers. In CD’s plants the stigmas stand beneath the lower anthers, but he believes two other forms exist: long-styled and mid-styled. Would be grateful for flowers of these types so he can fertilise them and obtain seed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 11 Aug 1866]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1866): 756
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5188

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 11 August 1866]

Summary

Describes the difficulties of crossing papilionaceous flowers. Believes the lack of success is a consequence of the need for early castration and successive applications of pollen on the stigma. Gives details of a method he has used to cross such flowers successfully.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 11 Aug 1866]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1866): 756
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5189

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   11 February [1868]

Summary

Requests information on published observations on the proportional number of males and females born to various domestic animals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  11 Feb [1868]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1868): 160
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5863

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [16 August 1841]

Summary

Reports detailed observations on humble-bees boring holes in flowers to extract nectar instead of brushing over the stamens and pistils. Some hive-bees seem to use the holes made by the humble-bees; speculates that this would be a case of acquired knowledge in insects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [16 Aug 1841]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 34, 21 August 1841, p. 550
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-607

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   17 November 1868

Summary

Is interested to know whether there are differences in the period of development of horns in sheep in those breeds in which horns are common to both sexes, and in those in which horns are confined to males.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  17 Nov 1868
Classmark:  Hudson Rogue (dealers) (Catalogue 9); Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 21 November 1868, p. 1218
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6464A

From David Taylor Fish to Gardeners’ Chronicle   8 May 1869

Summary

Discusses CD’s paper ‘Formation of mould’ and CD’s views on earthworms.

Author:  David Taylor Fish
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  8 May 1869
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1869): 501
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6736F

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   9 May [1869]

Summary

In response to a query from a Mr D. T. Fish, CD reaffirms his view of the efficiency of worms in bringing up in their intestines fine soil from below the surface. Reports on observations, during the past 25 years, which confirm his views.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  9 May [1869]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1869): 530
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6738

To Gardeners’ Chronicle    [late August 1843]

Summary

Sends some examples of Gentiana that he thinks may shed light on the origin of double flowers. Since specimens grew in sterile soil their double flowering cannot be attributed to excess food. CD advances the hypothesis that some change in natural conditions causes sterility, which then causes compensatory development of petals, the organs closest in morphology to those whose functions have been checked.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [late Aug 1843]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 36, 9 September 1843, p. 628
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-693

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 and Agricultural Gazette   [before 8 June 1844]

Summary

Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 8 June 1844]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 23, 8 June 1844, p. 380
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-756

To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette   [before 14 September 1844]

Summary

Referring to a correspondent who had written about Pelargonium plants whose leaves had become regularly edged with white, CD reports that nearly all the young leaves of box-trees he had planted have become symmetrically tipped with white. Though these facts seem trivial, CD believes the first appearance of any peculiarity which tends to become hereditary deserves being recorded.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 14 Sept 1844]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 37, 14 September 1844, pp. 621
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-777

To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette   [before 14 September 1844]

Summary

Asks whether salt and carbonate of lime (in the form of seashells) would act upon each other if slightly moistened and left in great quantities together. The question occurs from CD’s having found in Peru a great bed of recent shells that were mixed with salt, decayed and corroded "in a singular manner". Mentions, as relevant to the value of seashells as manure, that they are dissolved more rapidly by water than any other form of carbonate of lime.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 14 Sept 1844]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 37, 14 September 1844, pp. 628–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-778

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 23 November 1844]

Summary

Considers the transmutation of corn is well worth investigation ‘even if it should prove to be only a history of error’.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 23 Nov 1844]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 23 November 1844, p. 779
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-791F

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [31 August 1871]

Summary

In response to a query [from "F. W. B."], CD describes his experience with seeding Leschenaultia, which demonstrates that insect agency is required.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [31 Aug 1871]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 9 September 1871, p. 1166
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7927
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