RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Horwoods 4 Plants kept in my greenhouse. CUL-DAR108.137. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
John Horwood (1823-c.1880) was the head gardener of Darwin's neighbour G.H. Turnbull. 1862-63 Horwood superintended the building of Darwin's hothouse. Darwin acknowledged his assistance in Orchids, p. 158.
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Horwoods 4 Plants kept in my greenhouse— midstyled — self-fertilise — produced 180 pods, & then I examined 30, of which only 3 produced no seed: Hence. average
[calculations not transcribed] 35.5
But if all beneath 14 be omitted (I chose this by chance from results of 1863) we have this average
[calculations not transcribed]
42.5 average
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