RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Lindley's Horticulture, 1840. CUL-DAR49.130. 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: Darwin refers to Lindley, The theory of horticulture; or, an attempt to explain the principal operations of gardening upon physiological principles, 1840
.Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR49 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 3 on 'On...organic beings occasionally crossing' or dichogamy.
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Linley's Hort p. 319 Certain villages are famous for purity of seeds certain vars. which they exclusively cultivate as Beet at Castelnaudery the carrot at Altringham &c. Bastardizing happens much less to large masses of plants than to single. Hence good seed seldom varied in a garden.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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