| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and memorandums, published documents and press cuttings relating to France, including the genista fibre, prunes, diseases affecting vines, and the establishment of a colonial experimental garden. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer and Prain, with letters and notes by Thiselton-Dyer, Jackson, Morris and [Charles Henry] Wright. Includes correspondence between Kew and the Foreign Office. With material written in French and German.
Volume includes the following indexed subjects:
-- Beet --
(Ff97-98) Papers regarding sugar beet.
-- Chrozophora tinctoria --
(Ff100) Newspaper cutting regarding chrozophora tinctoria [also known ascroton tinctorium, and turnsole].
-- Fruit trade (Prunes) --
(Ff1-35) Papers regarding prunes [plums] including information about imports and exports, specimens for the museum, and the prune industry of California. Includes letters regarding specimens for the museum, and from E Gajac. Includes the following printed documents:
- M. Ch. Joly, NOTE SUR LES IMPORTATIONS ET LES EXPORTATIONS DES FRUITS ET DES LÉGUMES EN 1879
- M. Charles Joly, NOTE SUR LES IMPORTATIONS ET LES EXPORTATIONS DE PRODUITS HORTICOLES DE 1881 A 1883
- CULTIVATION OF PRUNES IN FRANCE (1888)
- 'The Plum Crop in Bosnia' (1891)
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. FURTHER EXAMINATION OF CALIFORNIA PRUNES, APRICOTS, PLUMS AND NECTARINES
-- Genista Fibre --
(Ff74-98) Papers regarding the genista fibre spartium junceum, L. [genêt d'Espagne] including acquiring specimens and products made from the fibre for the museum. Includes letters from Maxime Cornu, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, and from the Société Nationale d'Acclimitation de France. Includes the following printed document:
- REVUE DE SCIENCE NATURELLES APPLIQUÉES. LE GENÊT COMME PLANTE TEXTILE ET PAPYRIFÈRE (GENÊT D'ESPAGNE ET GENÊT A BALAIS) (Paris: La Société Nationale d'Acclimatation de France, 1892).
-- Jardin colonial --
(Ff99, 101-108) Papers regarding establishment of colonial experimental gardens at Paris by M Trouillet, with letter from J Dybowski, director of the Jardin Colonial at Nogent sur Marne.
-- Lysol cure for Phylloxera --
(Ff109-116)
Perchat J (Rondier) --
(Ff117-133) Papers regarding 'poudre de doum', [?Hyphaene thebaica] powdered seeds of the Doum Palm, to be used for soldiers' wounds, sent by Mme J Perchat for analysis by Kew.
-- Peronospora viticola --
(Ff36-73) papers regarding peronospora viticola [mildew], anthracnose of the vine, and the use of sulphate of copper for dressing vines with information on its usage in Italy and Spain. Includes the following printed documents:
- Max Cornu, LE MILDEW, PERONSPORA DES VIGNES (1880)
- Max Cornu, APPLICATIONS DE LA THÉORIE DES GERMES AUX CHAMPIGNONS PARASITES DES VÉGÉTAUX, ET SPÉCIALEMENT AUX MALADIES DE LA VIGNE (1880). |