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•Information and references to John Hutchinson at, Kew in heavily annotated press clipping. Correspondence re: this extract is filed with “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Hutchinson” •George Sherriff/ Dr. J Hutchinson, Correspondence (via Peter Cox) filed under “Ludlow & Sherriff” “misc. corres.” Box 10 in main index •Some correspondence is filed with Sir. Wm. Wright Smith papers under, “Smith, Sir. Wm. W.”; “Rhododendron Corres.”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes.
2 labels for identifying part of the process of India Rubber / Gutta Percha production and 7 book plates on note paper forming a small collection. Book plates: Churchill Babington, John Hutton Balfour, Henry Collins, Daniel Cresswell, Sir Compton Domvile, William Watson and 1 unidentified. Accrual: Article: 'India Rubber' by James Collins, formerly Government Economic Botanist and Librarian, Straits Settlement, etc. as published in 'The Cottager and Artisan', September 1897, pp.107-108, published by the Religious Tract Society, London. Also, a card with a poem on it: 'The Twins' by J. Rushton, on the back of which is a Note about the opening hours of the India Office Museum.
Red Leather bound scrapbook compiled by Ida M. Hayward and containing a photograph of Ida Hayward with her dog Logie; poem to Logie regarding their search for alien plants; newspaper cuttings; order forms for Hayward and Druce's "The Adventive Flora of the Tweed"; letters of thanks and receipts from those receiving a copy of the Flora; book reviews; photograph of beetles extracted from wool at Galashiels; and some loose letters.
Handwritten letter on 3 sides describing “new” method of propagation- “striking on the live plant”. By cutting 4/5 through the plant stalk and binding with damp moss a new shoot grows strongly and quickly. Anderson made successful experiments with fuchsia, heliotrope, jasmine, rose, etc. showing that this method can be used both in the greenhouse and in the open in situ. He grants Patrick Neill permission to publish them in the Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society.
8 medals: 1857 Royal Botanic Society of London for pansies 1868 Glasgow and west of Scotland Horticultural Society for 24 blooms – Dahlias 1878 Royal Horticultural Society Sir Joseph Banks medal for cut blooms – Pansies 1897 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Jubilee Prize medal for group of plants 1901 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for flowering and foliage plants 1905 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for group of plants – internal exhib 1908? Leith Horticultural Industrial Sports Society for violas and pansies 1925 Royal Horticultural Society for hardy flowers
1 poem regarding the cessation of the Scottish Horticultural Association in 1921, "The Passing of the Scottish Horticultural Association" by Charles Comfort.
• One folder containing a 27 page manuscript paper titled Contribution to Natural History: Re the roots of the Bromeliaceé. Detailed examination of root behaviour in these and allied species.
