The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. [1874]. [Sugar Cane]. CUL-DAR193.88-89. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2021. RN1

NOTE: This is a transcription from The Gardeners' chronicle (7 March 1874): 316.

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).

[193:88]

Extract from a letter to Dr Hooker from Mr. J. Caldwell, Port Louis, Mauritius

Sugar Cane

I would especially call your attention to a cane in which the Ribbon Cane has sported into a perfectly green cane and a perfectly red cane from the same head. I verified this myself on the spot as an old and experienced Cane planter, and the canes were virgin with only one head in each hole. I saw as least two hundred instances … on the same [plantation]

[193:89]

Gard. Chron. 1874 p. 316

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