Plants
Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on tools, crops and cattle, 28 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Notes on vegetation, 21 May 1877
Notes on the vegetation on Beire-mhòr [A' Bheirbhe Mhòr, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] which includes blue hyacinth, mountain ash and a 'heath[er] isle about 50 y[a]rds long and 20 wide'.
Notes on wildlife, 21 May 1877
Notes on the flora and fauna of A Mheribh Bheag [A' Bheiribhe Bheag, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] including glas-fhaoileagan [herring gulls], buttercups and wild kale. Includes sketch of a perpendicular hole found on the south east of the island.
Old Scroggy Heather, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a sample of old scroggy heather that is a foot-long.
Partielle Erd-Sterilisation [Partial Soil-Sterilisation], 1870s-1930s
Photograph of three plants that have had their soil partially sterilised by E J Russell and Petherbridge in the mid-20th century.
Plant Food in Soil, Broadback Field, Rothamsted, 1870s-1930s
Informational graph on the total available plant food in soil compared with that removed in wheat crop at Broadback Field, Rothamsted, [England] in the early/mid 20th century.
Plantain or Rib Grass, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of Plantain or Rib grass in a vase on a table in the early 20th century.
Plot 42 - Superphos[phate] and Amm[oni]a Salts, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a small plot of grass land treated with superphosphate and ammonia salts with a measuring stick showing the height of the plant growth.
Proverb which reads 'S fhearr [dealbhadh] an [fhraoch] Na gearoch an [rothaide]', 1904
Proverb which reads 'S fhearr [dealbhadh] an [fhraoch] Na gearoch an [rothaide]'.
Queen of the Meadow, Monybuie Corsock, [Scotland], 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a field of Queen of the Meadow, or meadowsweet, in Monybuie Corsock, Scotland in the late 19th or early 20th century. The initials, ' E.M.J.' are written on the slide, but it is unclear to whom or what this might refer.