To Journal of Horticulture [before 10 September 1861]1
[Down]
Really obliged should I be if you could tell me the names of the parents of Gladiolus gandavensis. Also, whether the six following varieties—Eldorado, Canasi, Ophir, Linné, Brenchleyensis, and Vulcain, are the progeny of G. gandavensis by itself, or of G. gandavensis crossed by some other species? If the history of these six varieties be not known, their appearance may, perhaps, to instructed eyes tell their probable origin.—2
Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Summary
Requests the names of the parents of Gladiolus gandavensis and six varieties for the purpose of determining their probable origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3248A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Journal of Horticulture
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 453
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3248A,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3248A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9