To Journal of Horticulture [before 18 June 1861]
Summary
CD, commenting on a case of peloric flowering in Auricula, urges readers to send in their observations on whether flowers nearest the axis tend to differ from others on the plant. Such a law of variation would be worth discovering.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 18 June 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3188 |
To Journal of Horticulture [17 May 1861]
Summary
Thanks Mr Beaton for his answer [to 3147].
Asks further questions on points raised in Beaton’s previous papers: whether crossing white and blue varieties of Anemone apennina produced many pale shades; whether the Mathiola incana and M. glabra which crossed freely were artificially or naturally crossed.
CD is delighted by Beaton’s assertion that "not a flower in a thousand is fertilised by its own immediate pollen".
Recounts his experiments with Leschenaultia formosa to show insect fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [17 May 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3162 |
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