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Glenarn Garden, Rhu, Dumbartonshire

  • GB 235 GGN
  • File
  • 1922 - 1984

Glenarn Garden, Rhu, Dumbartonshire
Owned by the Gibson family between 1922 and 1984, archive consists of:
• Early Plant Book – 1
• Rhododendron Book (Bible / Stud Book)
• List of Abbreviations relating to above two books
• Letter from Jim Gibson to David Ingram dated 24/01/1994 regarding donation of above and history of the Garden.

  • letter between F.R.S. Balfour of Dawyck and Archie Gibson, 09/08/1939 relating to Sawyers of Inverewe, silver pheasants, and some informatin on rhododendron - falconeri on the Isle of Man reputedly planted pre-1847 (pre-Hooker) - was it sent by Colonel Sykes c. 1830?
  • communication between John Patrick of the Rhododendron Venture and Archie Gibson in 1972 regarding plants from Taiwan and the Rhododendron Venture report of 1971. Both this and the FRS Balfour letter above were donated to RBGE in 1999 by Jim Gibson.

Glenarn Garden

David Douglas Ephemera

  • GB 235 DOU
  • File
  • 1799 - 1834

-Photograph of David Douglas
-2 handwritten letters from Samuel Crosse regarding David Douglas’s telescope.
1) dated April 29th 1920 to The Curator at Kew Gardens, London + photocopy
2) dated May 6th 1920 to Lt. Col. F.R.S. Balfour at Dawyck, Peeblesshire
-Reprint from the Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science - R. Dow on David Douglas, Scone - "David Douglas, Scone, Botanist and Pioneer of Arboriculture", read 14th April 1910.

Crosse, Samuel