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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863  greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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  • … , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, 15 January 1863 ). The decision was evidently prompted
  • experimentation, and the building of the hothouse early in 1863 marked something of a milestone in
  • the tropical plants of his friend and neighbour George Henry Turnbull, and he relied again on
  • do so by John Horwood, the gardener of his neighbour George Turnbull; Horwood had assisted him in
  • mid-February (see letters to JD. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and 15 February [1863] ). It was
  • … (Down House MS)). When it was completed, Darwin told Turnbull that without Horwoods aid he would
  • he wouldprobably have made a mess of it’ (letter to GH. Turnbull, [16? February 1863] ). …
  • plants’ (letter to JD. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). Darwin apparently refers to the catalogues
  • to Nurserymen’ (letter from JD. Hooker, [15 January 1863] ). Darwin agreed to send Hooker his
  • have from Kew’ (letter to JD. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ). Darwin probably gave his list
  • a school-boy’ (letter to JDHooker, 15 February [1863] ). On 20 February, the plants from Kew
  • like to ask for’ (letter to JD. Hooker, [21 February 1863] ). He had, he confessed to Hooker, …
  • Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [22 February 1863] in DAR 210.6: 109). There were other
  • on cultivation (see letter from JD. Hooker, [6 March 1863] ). Darwin derived enormous
  • each leaf’ (letter to JD. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwins aesthetic appreciation of
  • which they belonged. In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , he announced that the plants
  • worth trial’ (letter to JD. Hooker, 21 February [1863] ). Darwins hothouse became an
  • foreground, with pipes clearly visible, is the hothouse of 1863. Over many years, the
  • book gives an entry underScience’, dated 28 March 1863, for five guineasworth of plants bought
  • not supply (see letter from JD. Hooker, [16 February 1863] ). However, it can be dated with
  • this list and in his letter to JD. Hooker, 15 February [1863]. Secondly, he mentioned in this list
  • … (see letter from LC. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is headedStove
  • to him by Hooker (see letter to JD. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ), since many of the species listed
  • from Kew. Darwin said in the letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] that he had received 165 plants
  • a single heading in the list, such asMelastomaceæ (Sin[g]apore)’ orCatasetum species?’. However, …
  • at Clapton, London ( Post Office London directory  1863). 2.  John Cattell was a florist, …
  • p10. See also letter to JD. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and n19. 9.  Catasetum