Candolle
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To the celebrated French botanist Alphonse de Candolle he wrote:
From Time ● Nov. 24, 2014
De Candolle, Alph., number and origin of cultivated plants, i. 306-307, 371; regions which have furnished no useful plants, i.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
De Candolle, as noted in the first part of this work, considered the region about the Caspian Sea as the probable habitat of the Old World grape.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
We have introduced every where," observes De Candolle, "some weeds which grow among our various kinds of wheat, and which have been received, perhaps, originally from Asia along with them.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Of this work, M. Martins tells us in a note, that the second edition, published by Candolle in 1815, is still the standard work on French plants.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel
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