From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1864]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1864): 965
Summary:
Asks anyone who possesses a treatise on gardening, or an almanac, one or two centuries old, to look up what date is given as the proper period for sowing scarlet runners or dwarf French beans. CD wants to ascertain whether these plants can now be sown earlier than was formerly the case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project