To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 8 October 1864]

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.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-4629

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Gardeners’ Chronicle

Date

[before 8 Oct 1864]

Sent from

Down

Source of text

Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1864): 965

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12.

• Darwin, C. R.
• Gardeners’ Chronicle