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‘Wedding Anniversary’ – appears to be Joseph Taylor standing by his seated his wife, marked on reverse ‘Taken in our Garden / August 1949 / To Mrs Farquharson’ (134 x 83mm).

GB 235 MCW/4/1/16
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undated

Part of John MacWatt Primula papers

18 Flower Paintings by Agnes Fletcher Nobbs

GB 235 NBB
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1902

one sketchbook of 18 flower paintings with inscription "Edith H. Nobbs, from her mother, St Petersburg, January 1st 1902"

Nobbs, Agnes Fletcher

1928, May, Royal Horticultural Society Floral Committee B recommendation (127 x 177mm) for an Award of Merit as a hardy flowering plant for Primula heucherifolia awarded to Dr MacWatt.

GB 235 MCW/6/15
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1928

Part of John MacWatt Primula papers

1928, May, Royal Horticultural Society Floral Committee B recommendation (127 x 177mm) for an Award of Merit as a hardy flowering plant for Primula heucherifolia awarded to Dr MacWatt.

1931, May, Royal Horticultural Society Certificate of Preliminary Commendation for Primula microphylla (299 x 220mm) awarded to Dr J MacWatt.

GB 235 MCW/6/18
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1931

Part of John MacWatt Primula papers

4 cuttings, 3 of which are labelled in ink in John MacWatt’s hand

GB 235 MCW/3/4/1
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1910

Part of John MacWatt Primula papers

Buff sheet (274 x 198mm) mounted with 4 cuttings, 3 of which are labelled in ink in John MacWatt’s hand, regarding his entries in the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society’s Spring Show, from The Garden 1910, and Edinburgh Spring Show 13-14 February 1910, from Journal of Horticulture; short note with illustration regarding a Polyanthus in his collection, from Country Life, 30 April 1910; also ‘The Hardy Heaths’, a note of his own from an unidentified journal.

'Alder'

GB 235 GPX/0003
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c.1890s

Part of George Paxton Photographic Collection

single tree by burn
Paxton referred to this negative as 6
date and location unknown
envelope marked '6-11'

Paxton, George

Alder

GB 235 GPX/0002
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c.1890s

Part of George Paxton Photographic Collection

specimen sprig of leaves and flowers photographed with scale
Paxton referred to this as 21
location and date unknown
the plate is edged with orange paper; envelope was marked 'Ash'

Paxton, George

'Alder at Underwood, Bark'