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MACWATT, JOHN ‘PRIMULAS FOR THE GARDEN’, The Garden, February 27, 1926, 132-134 (2 copies, each 291 x 229mm).

MacWatt, John M.B., some notes on ‘History of the Auricula’, April 1928, proof copy (originally one sheet, 428 x 124mm, printed one side only, now in 2 pieces) from National Auricula Society Northern Section Annual Report 1928, 14-16.

•Some correspondence filed with Sir Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Corresp”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes

Collection consists of Mairi Planner's research into the Edinburgh nurserymen Downie, Laird and Laing, including material used in exhibiting the research. Mairi's great great grandfather Andrew Robertson Annan worked for the firm in the 1860s before moving to the Ravelston Estate in Edinburgh where he became Head Gardener - in researching him, Planner became interested in the nurserymen he worked for.