RECORD: Darwin, Elizabeth (Bessy). [1872]. Abstract of Variation under domestication, vol. 2. CUL-DAR193.11-12. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN2
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 volume CUL-DAR193 contains notes for Darwin's book Variation under domestication (1865-75).
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p. 231. Mr Clason informed me that the winter majetin, the New England Pigeon, the northern sky and the Duchesse d'Oldenburg as well as some others are not affected by American blight in Australia (1872)
[Variation 2: 231: "From some unknown cause, the Winter Majetin apple enjoys the great advantage of not being infested by the coccus."]
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vol ii, p 259
Effect of grafting pears or Quince
Decasine discredits this as cited by Asa Gray Amer. Journ. sc. & arts 1872 p. 493
p. 274 etc The Rhubarb flourishes in England But up till quite lately we had not the true official Rhubarb in England and it has got to be seen whether that has lost its properties
[Variation 2: 274: "The Rhubarb flourishes in England, but does not produce the medicinal substance which makes the plant so valuable in Chinese Tartary."]
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