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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1859.04.28. Amy tells me that at Knutsford she saw in Miss Hollands garden. CUL-DAR46.1.47. 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. 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-DAR46.1 contains Notes for Natural selection chap. 5 'Struggle for existence'.

"Crofton, Amy, 1866 Jan. 4 visited Down. 1867 May 25. C was a family friend who went to May eights at Cambridge with ED and family. Stayed 4 days, left on 1867 May 28. Visited yearly 1868-71. ED's diary." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)

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Ap. 28/59/ Amy tells me that at Knutsford she saw in Miss Hollands Garden the thrushes eating the fruit of one particular mountain-ash, before that of any other tree; & was assured that this happened every year; this tree being cleaned of its fruit, which no doubt was better; this tree is largely sowed →

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by Birds; & so wd be formed by being devoured. Good for Misseltoe illustration.— Hooker tells me that Mr Dillwyn put many seeds of Misseltoe on apple-trees, but all were removed by Birds & they grew only on thorn trees.—

Ch. 5.

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)