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2 folders, each containing around 40 specimens, the first being the collection curated by Great Aunt Lou - Louisa Hoby nee Russell in around 1862. The second seems to have been put together at least partly by 'DR' and includes seaweed specimens from Cumbrae.

View across flower borders and the raised flowering climbers, full plate, probable Amy Cameron image (165 x 215mm); with a small cutting pasted on the reverse - a note written by Dr MacWatt in an unidentified publication concerning the growing of Spigelia marilandica.

View across the garden with an Eremurus in flower in the foreground, full plate, probable Amy Cameron image (215 x 155mm); inscribed on the reverse in John MacWatt’s hand ‘Eremurus Robustus the single spike / Eremurus Himalyaicus the 3 spikes in distance - / The tree is a Fern leaved Beech / The 7 spikes at the side are Camassia Leichtlini / in Dr McWatt’s garden’.