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Horticulture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

2 Common-place books with medical receipts and prescriptions, and with gardening hints

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-622
Identifier: Coll-1555
Scope and Contents The common-place books are written in the same hand, largely, and are described as: 1 x common-place book, small 4to, with 174pp numbered, dating from 1817-1837, though a later style of handwriting on last unnumbered 4 pp feature the date 1849. Original lightly diced Russia, lacking spine. Manuscript medical receipts, prescriptions. Entries feature named Scottish doctors or Scottish periodicals. An...
Dates: 1810-1860

Horticultural Buildings81, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/240
Scope and Contents

Photograph of horticultural buildings, possibly at a university, in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to Edith F. Ewart from William Gordon, 19 September 1913

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/45
Scope and Contents

Gordon thanks Mrs Ewart for the glass jars for preserving the peas and beans in his garden and hopes that she and Professor Ewart will visit him on Shetland again next year. He reports that he was disappointed with the prices he received for his lambs in Aberdeen.

Dates: 19 September 1913

Notable Potato Raisers, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3227
Scope and Contents

Four portrait photographs of 'notable potato raisers' at the first potato exhibition and conference of the Scottish Horticultural Association in Edinburgh in October 1912. The men in the photographs are: John Nicol, Auchterlonie; T S Chapman of Wester Hill House, Bathgate; James Kerr of Banff; and Professor J H Wilson, D.Sc. St, Andrew's University.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Notable Potato Raisers, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3273
Scope and Contents

Four portrait photographs of 'notable potato raisers' at the first potato exhibition and conference of the Scottish Horticultural Association in Edinburgh in October 1912. The men in the photographs are: John Niven, Madderty, Crieff; Archibald Findlay of Mairsland, Auchtermuchty; James Gardiner, M.P, Perth; and Donald McKelvie, Lamlash, Arran.

Dates: 1870s-1930s