The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

by Charles Darwin

[43] For these several statements, see Loudon’s ‘Gard. Magazine,’ vol. x. 1834, pp. 408, 180; and vol. ix. 1833, p. 597.

[44] These statements are taken from Alph. De Candolle, ‘Bot. Géograph.,’ p. 1083.

[45] Verlot, op. cit., p. 38.

[46] Op. cit., p. 59.

[47] Alph. De Candolle, ‘Géograph. Bot.,’ p. 1082.

[48] See ‘Cottage Gardener,’ April 10th, 1860, p. 18, and Sept. 10th, 1861, p. 456; ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1845, p. 102.

[49] Darwin in ‘Journal of Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot.,’ 1862, p. 94.

[50] Hofacker, ‘Ueber die Eigenschaften,’ etc., s. 10.

[51] Bechstein, ‘Naturgesch. Deutschlands,’ B. iv. s. 462. Mr. Brent, a great breeder of canaries, informs me that he believes that these statements are correct.

[52] ‘The Poultry Book,’ by W. B. Tegetmeier, 1866, p. 245.