RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1863.01.20. Mr Horwood before told me that this last year the old parent plant. CUL-DAR205.8.56. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2022. 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-DAR205.8 contains notes on the genus Monochaetum and other plants.
"Horwood, John, 1823-c.1880 G.H. Turnbull's head gardener. 1862-63 H superintended building of CD's hothouse." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.)
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Jan. 20 1863. Mr Horwood before told me that this last year the old parent plant (as before) of Heterocentron roseum set no seed; & of my seedlings the dwarf plant set none; but the latter over from other pollen did set many; & today he brought in some pods – there contained a multitude of bad seeds, but with a good sprinkling of apparently quite good seeds.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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