RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1841.10.09]. Abstract of Lindley, The theory of horticulture, etc. CUL-DAR205.2.70. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. 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 volume CUL-DAR205.2 contains notes on means of distribution.
Darwin recorded reading this in his 'Books Read / Books to be Read' notebook. CUL-DAR119.-"Lindley's Theory of Hort. — abstracted" Lindley, John. 1840. The theory of horticulture; or, an attempt to explain the principal operations of gardening upon physiological principles. London. This document is in Emma Darwin's hand.
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Linley's Hort. p 185. Kidney beans 100 years old & raspberry seeds taken from a barrow which was supposed to be 16 or 1700 years old were raised by Linley. Millar says Plantago psyllium sprung from the soil of an ancient empty ditch near Chelsea though none known there in the memory of man.
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