RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of [Isaac] Anderson, M'Intosh's Book of the Garden. Gardeners' Chronicle (20 August 1853): 533-4. CUL-DAR79.173. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 76-79 contain material for Darwin's book Cross and self fertilisation (1876).
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Gard Chronicle 1853. p 534 on corolla of Calceolaria guide the Bees to flowers
[Cross and self fertilisation, p. 87: "The flowers in this genus are constructed so as to favour or almost ensure cross-fertilisation;* and Mr. Anderson remarks† that extreme care is necessary to exclude insects in order to preserve any kind true. He adds the interesting statement, that when the corolla is cut quite away, insects, as far as he has seen, never discover or visit the flowers. This plant is, however, self-fertile if insects are excluded. So few experiments were made by me, that they are hardly worth giving.
* Hildebrand as quoted by H. Müller, 'Die Befruchtung der Blumen' 1873 page 277.
† 'Gardeners' Chronicle' 1853 page 534."]
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