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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 14 May 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman , n.s. 1 (1861): 112
Summary:

Asks D. Beaton whether varieties of the same species of Compositae frequently cross by insect agency or other means. Do the raisers of hollyhocks have to keep each variety separate for raising seed?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[17 May 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 151
Summary:

Thanks Mr Beaton for his answer [to 3147].

Asks further questions on points raised in Beaton’s previous papers: whether crossing white and blue varieties of Anemone apennina produced many pale shades; whether the Mathiola incana and M. glabra which crossed freely were artificially or naturally crossed.

CD is delighted by Beaton’s assertion that "not a flower in a thousand is fertilised by its own immediate pollen".

Recounts his experiments with Leschenaultia formosa to show insect fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 18 June 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 211
Summary:

CD, commenting on a case of peloric flowering in Auricula, urges readers to send in their observations on whether flowers nearest the axis tend to differ from others on the plant. Such a law of variation would be worth discovering.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 9 July 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 280–1
Summary:

CD thanks correspondents for information relating to the fertilisation of Pelargonium and of wheat. Suggests further observations and experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 10 Sept 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 453
Summary:

Requests the names of the parents of Gladiolus gandavensis and six varieties for the purpose of determining their probable origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 22 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 2 (1861–2): 76
Summary:

Asks H. W. Newman whether the queen humble-bee is fertilised on the ground or in the air, and whether the fertilisation often takes place as late as September. [Newman’s reply follows CD’s letter.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 10 June 1862]
Source of text:
Institut de France, Bibliothèque (Ms 2441-XII ff. 343–4)
Summary:

Asks whether any correspondents have observed any sensible differences between the bees kept in different parts of Great Britain. CD has heard from several sources that breeds of bee in different areas vary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 15 July 1862]
Source of text:
Christie’s East, New York (catalogue 26 April 1995: the Philip M. Neufeld collection, pt 2); Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 305
Summary:

Is obliged for information concerning differences in the bees of Britain. Relates case of the Jamaican bees which were introduced long ago and have remained the same in size and character except that the diameter of the cells is larger, the wax tougher, and the walls of the hive thicker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 22 July 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 323
Summary:

Confesses to having made a gross blunder with reference to the size of bee cells in West Indian combs [see 3658a].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 25 Nov 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman , n.s. 3 (1862): 672
Summary:

Asks correspondents whether any kinds of strawberries now cultivated have been raised from a cross between the wood or alpine strawberry and the scarlet, pine, or Chili strawberry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 696
Summary:

Asks for authentic information on following questions: 1. Has the weight of the gooseberry variety London subsequently exceeded the 1845 record of 880 grains?

2. Is any record kept of the diameter of the largest pansies?

3. How early does any variety of Dahlia flower and do some varieties withstand frost better than others?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 27 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 797
Summary:

Inquires whether penguin ducks can run faster than other kinds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 27 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 70
Summary:

Remarks on the influence of pollen of one species or variety on the seed and fruit of another while still attached to the female plant. Refers to a remarkable case previously given by D. Beaton and asks whether Beaton will repeat the details.

[CD’s letter is followed by notes by D. Beaton in which he answers CD’s question, dissociating himself from some of his remarks, and in particular denying C. F. v. Gärtner’s claim that colour of one variety of pea can be changed by the direct action of the pollen of a different variety.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 93
Summary:

Answers D. Beaton’s criticism of Gärtner’s work, defending his results in crossing experiments and vindicating the memory of "one of the most laborious lovers of truth who ever lived".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[17–24 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237
Summary:

Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.

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Darwin Correspondence Project