Item ADH/1/1/2 - Correspondence on Tulipa from GP Baker, Peter Clutterbuck, Reginald Schomberg, Thomas Hay, the British Consulate, India, JH Thomson Glover: about tulip varieties found in various countries including France, Greece and India. Also pages 417-20 of The Gardener's Chronicle June 27, 1936: 'Tulipa Clusiana and its Allies' by ADH.

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Correspondence on Tulipa from GP Baker: location of varieties of tulip in France, Greece with specific notes on T. chrysobasis, cretica baiss, duer fleri, hegeri,hab retimo, vasiles and fles solis; Peter Clutterbuck from Kashmir, India about an unnamed yellow tulip; the British Consulate in India, Reginald Schomberg about tulips from the Asia; H.M Office of Works, Thomas Hay, Park Superintendent, Hyde Park, about T. lanata, chrysantha bulbs collected in Zanskar, Kasmir, collecting seeds in India for the Royal Parks and Gardens and naming a variety; JH Thomson Glover on T.chrysantha and clusiana;

Admin History: Reginald Charles Francis Schomberg (1880-1958): ary officer and explorer. Schomberg travelled widely in the northern areas of imperial India (Chitral), Central Asia (Karakoram and Chinese Turkestan [1927/9/30/31] ) as well as and Tibet and Ladakh [1943/44]