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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gulliver
Date:
27 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Summary:

His thanks for the present [The works of William Hewson, edited by GG, 1846]. [See 1796.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 52, 29 December 1855, p. 854
Summary:

Cites [from Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung (1849), p. 157] a report that seeds from graves of ancient Gauls germinated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 52, 29 December 1855, p. 854
Summary:

CD requests accurate information on the extent to which the different varieties of fruit-trees produce seedlings like their parents. Do some varieties of pears and apples tend to produce truer offspring than other varieties?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project