| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, with printed documents, regarding matters relating to economic botany in Greece, Malta and Gozo. Includes letters from Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer and Daniel Morris; with letters to William Hooker, Joseph Hooker, and Thiselton-Dyer. Includes letters from the Colonial Office, Foreign Office [including Edward Grey], Indian Office, and the Board of Agriculture.
The volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Botanic Garden, Malta. Report for 1901 --
(F108) Printed extract.
-- China grass --
(Ff8-9) Letter regarding request by the Malta Agrarian Society for china grass seed.
-- Cineraria maritima --
(Ff40-60) Papers regarding the use of cineraria maritima [Jacobaea maritima] as a remedy for cataracts. Includes letters from R Mercer, Resident Medical Officer of the Colonial Hospital, Port of Spain (1888), Jabez Hogg, and others.
-- Malta, report by Cons. For. Madras, 1868 --
(Ff10-28) Printed report by H Cleghorn, Conservator of Forests, Madras, regarding his visit to Malta and Gozo and the cultivation of trees. With letters, including by Joseph Hooker, regarding the establishment of plantations.
-- Orange culture --
(Ff99-107) Papers including the following printed document:
- J Borg, CULTURE AND DISEASES OF THE ORANGE TREE [?1900].
-- Phylloxera (Greece) --
(Ff34-39) Papers regarding the reported spread of phylloxera to vines in the Morea [Peloponnese peninsula]
.
-- [Phylloxera] (Malta) --
(Ff61-63) Correspondence between [?S L] Pisani and Thiselton-Dyer.
-- Potato disease --
(Ff83-98) Papers regarding restrictions on importation of potatoes from the United Kingdom to Malta to prevent the spread of phytophthora infestans. With following printed document:
- F Debono, REPORT ON THE VINE AND POTATO DISEASES IN MALTA AND TREATMENT THEREOF (Malta: Government Printing Office, 1898).
-- Sage-apples (Salvia pomifera), Greece --
(Ff29-33) Papers regarding samples of the salvia pomifera, with memorandum by Professor Heldreich of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Athens. With memorandum regarding footstool made from ferula communis.
-- Sericulture (Ionian Isles) --
(Ff1-7) Papers regarding the introduction of the Japanese silk worm, with letters from Sir H Storks.
-- Tobacco in Greece --
(Ff69-82) Printed report, titled:
- A K Dambergis, LES TABACS ET TOUBEKIS GRECS AU POINT DE VUE CHIMIQUE. RAPPORT PRÉSENTÉ AU CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DE CHIMIE APPLIQUÉE (BRUXELLES 4-10 AOÛT 1894) (Athènes: Imprimerie Nationale, 1894).
Volume also includes papers (ff64-68) regarding vine disease [mildew, peronospora] affecting currants in Greece. |