From Charles Wentworth Dilke 12 October 1864
76 Sloane Street SW.
12 Oct 1864
Dear Sir
I notice your question in last Gardeners Chronicle & send you such information as I can get.1 It is perhaps hardly precise enough to print in the Chronicle I therefore address it to you to deal with as you like.
In the notes to “Perkins A new Almanack” 1681 2 are “Excellent Notes of Husbandry & Gardening for each month in the year”
“February Observations sow all sorts of Pease & other Pulse, sow mustard seed” &c March x x “make an end of sowing all manner of Pulse” July x x “gather garden beans”
I have been through our Almanacs from 1682 to 1693 & find no other allusion to gardening. If you are content with later dates I shall have much pleasure in further examining.
Yours truly | C Wentworth Dilke
Charles Darwin Esq
I ought to mention that our Series only commences with 1681— we have but one before that—1678.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Perkins, Francis. 1681. A new Almanack, for the year of Our Lord God, 1681. London: Company of Stationers.
Summary
In response to CD’s notice in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 93], sends planting times of peas from an 1861 almanac.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4634
- From
- Charles Wentworth Dilke, Jr, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Sloane St, 76
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 180
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4634,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4634.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12