Showing 2127 results

Letter from the Duke of Argyll to John Hutton Balfour dated 3 February 1853 regarding the Palm House funding; " My dear Sir, Many thanks for ... so kindly again sending Pine seeds from India. I shall be very glad to speak to Sir W. Molesworth about the Palm House but like all governments we are short of cash"

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour to Arthur Kilpin Bulley dated 28 April 1904 recommending George Forrest as a plant collector; 'Dear Mr Bulley, There is a man, Forrest, here who is on the look out for a billet such as you describe. I have given your letter to him and he will write to you. He was recommended to my notice by John Abercrombie [sic], the Naturalist, as a man who was collecting plants for some Society on Scotland and who wished to go abroad as a collector. I could find nothing for him in that line but took him on my staff in the Herbarium so that, whilst of use to us, he might gain a wider knowledge of plants. He has been working here for about six months and I have found him an excellent industrious and steady man. He has had opportunity here of getting to know a good deal about the plants of the world and he seems to have profitted by it. The head of the Herbarium speaks very highly of him. He is a strongly built fellow and seems to me to be of the right grit for a collector.'

MacWatt, Dr John, ‘European Primulas’, offprint from RHS Journal of his paper read to the April 1913 Primula Conference. Two copies (each 248 x 157 x 2mm), one inscribed in ink on the cover ‘To Anne/ from her father/ John MacWatt’.

1911, 23 May, Royal Horticultural Society Temple Show; Silver Flora Medal Certificate (158 x 228mm) awarded to Mr John MacWatt for Primulas and Auriculas.

1914, Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea; Silver Gilt Banksian Medal Certificate (158 x 227mm) awarded to Mr MacWatt.