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DCP-LETT-10769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
3 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 6 January 1877, p. 19
Summary:

Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10797

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
17 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 20 January 1877, p. 83
Summary:

CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10854

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
19 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 24 February 1877, p. 246
Summary:

Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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