RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1880.05.19-06.10. Silver fir Orchard / Spruce Fir in Garden. CUL-DAR209.6.2. 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 volume CUL-DAR209.6 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

Notes for Movement in plants. Text F1325

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May 19' /80 Silver Fir Orchard

Leading shoot only .5 inch high— Pinched 4. Lateral shoots only about 5-10 above above Horizon. — 3 pinched & 1 left unpinched — Length 1.25.— All measure to old wood.— Shoots tenderer with terminal scale-like-caps still at end.

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Spruce Firs in Garden. June 10' 1880

1 tree Upper end — leader 1/2 inch high pinched — 1 lateral cut off & 2 laterals pinched.— This is tree with one lateral highly inclined from last autumns experiments— now pinched young leader & 2 laterals,— leaving a third lateral

2nd tree — leader about .3 high pinched — 1 lateral pinch cut off— 2 laterals pinched with wire — one left

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