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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’.

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.

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.