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