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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Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
Fish, D. T. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (54) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (54) |
Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
Fish, D. T. | (1) |