| Description | Manuscript and typescript correspondence, printed documents, press cuttings and photographs, with printed images. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, David Prain and Arthur Hill with letters, memorandums and annotation by Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hill, Daniel Morris and John Gilbert Baker. The volume dates between 1878-16 Sep 1916, with undated notes taken from THE BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA (1864).
Volume is arranged as follows:
-- Cascara Sagrada --
(Ff120-202) Papers regarding sending herbarium specimens of Larix lyallii, and the purchase of seeds of Rhamnus Purshiana and their distribution. Includes correspondence and memorandums on the germination and cultivation of these seeds. Includes photograph sent by Spencer Pickering [of Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm], 26 Feb 1913, of the Rhamnus Purshiana. Includes correspondence regarding clinical trials with the extract of Rhamnus Purshiana. Correspondents include Gerald Loder, F R S Balfour, Herbert Maxwell and Stafford Howe, George Barger [Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories] among others.
Includes printed report:
- H A D Jowett, CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF CASCARA BARK (Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories).
-- Flax straw --
(Ff28-31) Papers regarding flax straw as a substitute for esparto grass for paper-making.
-- Lavender --
(Ff95-99) Papers regarding the lavender industry in Hitchin and Mitcham, and the establishment of the 'Therapeutical Society' with Thiselton-Dyer as President.
-- Marram Grass --
(Ff239-245) Papers regarding its paper making qualities.
-- Medicinal Plants --
(Ff100-110) Papers regarding the cultivation of herbs and medicinal plants in Great Britain, with notes from THE BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA 1864.
-- Orchid nomenclature --
(Ff74-94) Papers regarding the Royal Horticultural Society's Orchid Nomenclature Committee, with letters and memorandums from Maxwell Masters, Thiselton-Dyer, John Gilbert Baker [on orchid work in Kew's Herbarium], and [Sir Frederick] Moore [Royal Botanic Gardens, (Science and Art Department) Glasnevin, Co Dublin]. Includes newspaper cuttings arguing for Kew to provide information on orchids.
-- Poison Ivy --
(Ff117-119) Newspaper cuttings including article by John R Jackon on poisonous plants.
-- Prickly Comfrey --
(Ff1-10) Papers regarding identification and use of Symphytum peregrinum [synonym of Symphytum officinale L.], with following printed report:
- 'Symphytum Asperrimum or Caucasian Prickly Comfrey. Russian Variety', COMMERCIAL PLANTS, NO 3, (1880).
-- Rye straw --
(Ff11-20) Papers regarding rye straw for paper making, including letters from Lewis Evans, Frederick Pratt Barlow and George Noble.
-- Seaweed --
(Ff70-73) Papers regarding regulations on cutting seaweed and its use as food and manure.
-- Soil inoculation --
(Ff203-238) Papers regarding experiments of Professor W B Bottomley and Kew on soil inoculation. Includes printed photograph of Professor W B Bottomley and 'character sketch'. Includes photograph, 14 May 1908, of 'experiments made on Sweet Peas growing in soil from the roots of clianthus puniceus and nodules from the roots'. Includes printed material of the Nitro-Bacterine Distributing Agency, and the following printed report:
- IS SEED INOCULATION USELESS? AN ANALYSIS OF MR F J CHITTENDEN'S REPORT ON THE WISLEY EXPERIMENTS PUBLISHED IN THE "JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY" OF NOVEMBER, 1908 (London: William Clowes and Sons, Limited).
-- Spartina Townsendii --
(Ff246-251) Papers regarding spartina townsendii and possible use in paper making, and experiments by Henry P Stevens. Includes article on 'Rice Grass in Poole Harbour', with printed images.
-- Sugar Beet --
(Ff32-41) Papers regarding cultivation of sugar beet in Britain.
-- Tobacco --
(Ff42-69) Papers regarding cultivation and experiments of growing tobacco in Britain, and the cigar trade. Includes copies of letters, 1888, discussing possibility of planting tobacco at Kew.
-- Woad --
(Ff21-27) Papers regarding cultivation of Isatis tinctoria and its use in dyes.
The volume also contains material regarding (ff111-112) natural crossing among plants, and (ff113-116) cotton cultivation. |