RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstracts of Gardeners' Chronicle, 1869-1871. CUL-DAR75.12. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. 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 and references added by John van Wyhe 4.2026. RN5

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-DAR72-75 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
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1869 continued

p. 843 on Resemblances & analogies with Plants, stalking

Anon. 1869. [Review of] L. H. Grindon, Echoes in plant and flower life. Gardeners' Chronicle (7 August): 843.

p 1012, 1018 Potato grafts

p 1110 On Lychnis dioica, Miss Becker beetles, comments on

Anon. 1869. The change in the flowers of Lychnis dioica from a unisexual to a bisexual condition. Gardeners' Chronicle (23 October): 1110.

1870

p. 77 Welwitsch curious anomalies in Africa of plants called to those of America

Anon. 1870. [Review of] Welwitsch, Sertum Angolense, &c. A description of certain new or little known plants, observed in Angola and Benguela. Gardeners' Chronicle (15 January): 77. PDF

p 243 agrees with Meehan on ♀ influences — Vigour

Anon. 1870. Grafting the vine. Gardeners' Chronicle (19 February): 243.

p 386 Wood-lice living for 16 Hours under sea-water

Catleugh, William Thomas. 1870. Tenacity of wood-lice to life. Gardeners' Chronicle (19 March): 386.

p 663 On Hoffmann on Struggle for Existence, goodish. Masters

Anon. 1870. [Duchatre and Hoffmann and cultivation]. Gardeners' Chronicle (14 May): 663.

p 1376 Nat. Plants in N. Zealand — proportions of.

Anon. 1870. New Zealand vegetation. Gardeners' Chronicle (15 October): 1375-1376.

p. 1470 Var. of Fir with leaves spiral, united of distichous as in A. pinsapo.

Andre. 1870. Abies pectinata. Gardeners' Chronicle (5 November): 1470.

p. 1631. On variability of N. Zealand Plants

Andre. 1870. Variation in plants. Gardeners' Chronicle (10 December): 1631.

p. 1634 & 1639 A. Murray rubbish on mimicry by Hybridism.–

Murray, Andrew. 1870. [Mimetic analogy]. Gardeners' Chronicle (10 December): 1639.

1871

p 646 Reversion in cross-bred Pelargoniums

Douglas, John. 1871. Reversion- and something else. Gardeners' Chronicle (20 May): 646.

837 Potato grafting good

Dean, Alexander. 1871. Grafted potatos. Gardeners' Chronicle (1 July): 837.

977 ✓ on a new butterfly lately visiting Mauritius in numbers.

Anon. 1871. [Papilio demoleus, Mauritius]. Gardeners' Chronicle (29 July): 977.

1065 Abutilon Darwinii mentioned.

Anon. 1871. [Abutilon Darwinii]. Gardeners' Chronicle (19 August): 1065. "A fact worthy of notice, relating to the Fertilisation of Flowers, is recorded in the current number of the 'Botanical Magazine.' A very pretty new Abutilon, raised by Mr. Darwin, from Brazilian seeds, is figured in the periodical in question, under the name Abutilon Darwinii; and it is stated that, during the early part of the flowering season, it is absolutely sterile with its own pollen, but fertile with the pollen of any other individual of the same species, while later in the season it is capable of self-fertilisation".

1065 on Majatin apple in Australia not subject to Coccus — its ashes contain more lime than the crab.

Anon. 1871. [Majetin apple not subject to American blight]. Gardeners' Chronicle (19 August): 1065.

1103 on fertilisation of Leschenaultia by F. W. B.

F. W. B. 1871. Fertilisation of Leschenaultia formosa. Gardeners' Chronicle (26 August): 1103. Text

1166 ✓ My paper on Do

Darwin, C. R. 1871. Fertilisation of Leschenaultia. Gardeners' Chronicle no. 36 (9 September): 1166. Text

1420 on two kinds of nervation in the same leaf.

Anon. 1871. [de Candolle on veins of leaf of beech]. Gardeners' Chronicle (4 November): 1420.

1614 ✓ On certain plants, such as some grasses & Dutch Clover, flourishing better when growing in company

Masters, Maxwell Tylden. 1871. Growth of twelve different species of plants, under five difference conditions of manuring. Gardeners' Chronicle (16 December): 1614.

1869 & 1870

1871 v not referred  not at distributed in proper places

1872.

p. 872 Dr Denny on struggle of inheritance from strength of constitution — on some vars. apparently sterile inter se.

Denny, John. 1872. The relative influence of parentage in flowering plants. Gardeners' Chronicle (29 June): 872, (6 July): 904-905. PDF


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