| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and press cuttings regarding botanical subjects primarily relating to Italy, with some material covering Spain, Bosnia and the United States of America. Includes letters to William Hooker, Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer and Prain, and letters by Dyer and Prain, and annotation by Jackson. Includes much correspondence between Kew and the Foreign Office, including with Lister, and with J A Churchill, British Consulate for Sicily.
Volume includes sections on the following subjects:
-- Ampelodesma tenax --
(Ff124-132) Papers regarding the grass ampelodesmos tenax [Ampelodesmos mauritanicus (Poir.)] found on the Promontory of Portofino; its uses in the manufacture of rope; and sending samples to the Kew Museum.
-- Chestnuts --
(Ff74-80) Papers regarding smoked chestnuts and chestnut flour, including sending specimens to the Kew museum and analysis of chestnut flour. Includes letters from Colnaghi.
-- Citric acid from sugar --
(Ff164-173) Papers regarding the production of citric acid from sugar, including experiments in Alsace on the artificial production of citric acid.
-- Fig tree --
(F84).
-- King of Italy, His Majesty the, (Visit to Kew) --
(Ff193-194) Letter regarding a photograph taken of the King of Italy in the Rock Garden.
-- Macaroni --
(Ff152-163) Consists of the following printed document:
- THE MACARONI INDUSTRY OF ITALY.
-- Oak --
(Ff1-14) Papers regarding sending acorns and oak twigs to Kew from Tuscany, Sardinia, Modena; Spain and Bosnia, and comments regarding use for naval construction. Includes letters from the Admiralty to William Hooker.
-- Olive culture --
(Ff68-73) Papers regarding the cultivation of olives, including in Siena and Southern Sicily. Includes the following printed documents:
- John Glyn, 1877. NEW ZEALAND. REPORT ON OLIVE CULTURE
- Consul C Bailey Hurst, OLIVE OIL IN SOUTHERN SICILY (1892).
-- Orange and Lemon culture --
(Ff133-151) Papers regarding orange and lemon cultivation in Sicily, with article regarding the lemon and orange trade of America. Printed documents include:
- SICILIAN FRUIT INDUSTRY (1897)
- THE CANDIED FRUIT TRADE (1899).
-- Orris-root --
(Ff174-182) Papers regarding samples from the orris root industry for the Kew Museum. Includes letters by Montgomery Carmichael, and the following printed document:
- Montgomery Carmichael, ANOTHER TUSCAN INDUSTRY: WORKED ORRIS-ROOT (1902).
-- Phylloxera --
(Ff23-67) Papers regarding the spread of phylloxera in Italy, with emphasis on Sicily. Includes letters and memorandums by D E Colnaghi, Robert J Rose and Sidney J A Churchill, with the following printed documents:
- BOLLETINO DI NOTIZIE AGRARIE. SOMMARIO. CONGRESSO FILLOSSERICO INTERNAZIONALE IN TORINO (1884)
- Professor Jemina, THE TURIN PHYLLOXERA COUNCIL. IDEAS AS TO THE PHYLLOXERA AND RULES FOR WATCHING THE VINEYARDS. (Nicosia: Government Printing Office, 1888).
-- Pasidonia Caulinii --
(Ff186-192) Papers regarding a factory at Crinellino making bed stuffing from the seagrass posidonia caulini [Posidonia oceanica]; and on acquiring samples for the Kew Museum.
-- Sumach --
(Ff88-123) Papers regarding the cultivation and trade of sumach [sumac] in Sicily. Includes letters between the Foreign Office and the British Consulate at Palermo regarding acquiring specimens of sumach and the 'ronco' and 'bovillo' instruments for the Kew Museum. With papers regarding acquiring seed for experimentation by the Yorkshire College, with letter from A G Perkin. Includes the following printed documents:
- W T Thiselton-Dyer, NOTE ON THE CULTIVATION OF SUMACH IN SICILY (London: W I Richardson, 1885)
- Philip Carroll, ITALIAN SUMAC (1884)
- SUMACH (RHUS CORIARIA, L.)
- Arthur G Perkin, George Young Allen, COLOURING MATTER OF SICILIAN SUMACH, RHUS CORIARIA [CONTRIBUTION FROM THE CLOTHWORKERS' RESEARCH LABORATORY, DYEING DEPARTMENT, YORKSHIRE COLLEGE] (1896).
-- Vine disease --
(Ff15-22) Papers including letters from the Foreign Office, and memorandum by [Andrea] B Archbald.
Volume also includes papers regarding:
- (Ff81-83) floods in Northern Italy in 1882
- (Ff85-87) extracting oil from grape stones 'for illuminating purposes'
- (Ff183-184) printed document, THE NEW PROPHYLAXIS AGAINST MALARIA: AN ACCOUNT OF EXPERIMENTS IN LATIUM by Professor Angelo Celli
- (F185) the cultivation of truffles. |
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