RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1841-1842. CUL-DAR75.1. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021, revised 9.2025. RN3

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 volumes CUL-DAR 72-75 contain Darwin's abstracts of scientific books and journals.

CUL-DAR75.1 - CUL-DAR75.12 list items Darwin noted in his copy of Gardeners' Chronicle. There is a bound index to Darwin's collection of the magazine (now in the Cory Library, Cambridge) which gives page numbers and subjects of interest to Darwin from 1847-1871, now in CUL-DAR222.1 (transcribed only in Darwin Online).

In The Complete Library of Charles Darwin: 1841-1843: link 1844-1871: link
1841 PDF 1842 PDF 1843 PDF 1844 PDF 1845 PDF 1846 PDF 1847 PDF 1848 PDF 1849 PDF 1850 PDF 1851 PDF 1852 PDF 1853 PDF 1854 PDF 1855 PDF 1856 PDF 1857 PDF 1858 PDF 1859 PDF 1860 PDF 1861 PDF 1862 PDF 1863 PDF 1864 PDF 1865 PDF 1866 PDF 1867 PDF 1868 PDF 1869 PDF 1870 PDF 1871 PDF 1874. pp. 15-16. CUL-DAR58.2.32 Image link 1875. pp. 44-45. CUL-DAR139.18.24 Image PDF link


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Volume 1841

20 Hacon's incomparable [illeg] the other Pears

275 The first frost destroys Potatoes as certainly as in Raleigh's Time & [illeg] Vine?

291 trees under artificial Heat ([illeg] have progressing vegetated carbon)

— Cherries do not set well in hot house without assistance for no insects

292 Vines in N. France not hurt by insects which in [injure] them in South

329 Fern-leaved Beech sporting Back to common form (This is kind of reversion)

344 Dr Greville on Quercus when intermedia Only vars

383 Chidham wheat fd in Hedge

437 Truffle-hunting hereditary in Pigs

439 some degree of acclimatizing to Indian Climate

485 Bean Flowers perforated did only fair set seed Pods!! 596 In [Phacerlus] germ said to be destroyed by Bees biting!!

557 Canton on Mammals of Chusan.

585 Two kinds of Meilass will not fruit if grafted on each other Ch. 9

600 Book on Improvement of Heartease

663 Infarcial orange good case

617 Nectarine on Peach

645 Mayes, had cowslip & Primula &c from Polyanthus  p. 660    

687 Heterostylous Hornbeam hereditary (Ch. 9) Bee in Lilium case

689 Irish yew pretty true from seed

767 Arch. Whately grafts of late & early trees

782 Even Tulip bulbs themselves are different in variability

814 Sport in Tubers & Potatoes

844 History of Calceolaria

[not in Darwin's hand:] Box G (x)

Volume (1842)

5 On Quercus sessiliflora & robur

21 On increase in size of gooseberry

36 Fastigate oak sometimes turn to seed

55 Run-flowers seem instances of Reversion to [illeg] state p. 791 so some sports

171 Range of Primrose & cowslip

272 Oaks becoming shrubby below culture level

300 Certain Broccoli very apt to sport

397 Laburnum sport good case

422 Moss Rose sporting with common

759 Rose with 2 coloured flowers both constant

790 Mountain of Malay Peninsula have Australian forms & allied to Khania mtns

873 Sport Red & White Currants


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