Slide Box 1: (44 slides) Topics: Bayfordbury 1956 The lake Director's house Herbaceous border The tennis court Clearing and excavating the site for new buildings Stable block Warm corridor Harry Chorlton mending roof New glasshouses 1957 Felling Pinetum 1960 Sailor's Grove from Mansion roof Bayfordbury house from back lawn New building 1959 New building Feb 1960 New building June 1960 New building from lake June 1961
Correspondence with GR and others regarding the history of the rose collections. Essays, copies of articles and misc. paperwork. Booklet 'Cactus World'.
Loose page: Bignonia Cherere from 'The Garden' magazine, 30 Dec, c 1871-1920. In folder of loose pages of botanical painting prints from published volumes including the 'Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London' and William Curtis, 'The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed'.
Loose page on card: Cyclamen-Flowered Daffodils, NarcissusTriandrus Vars Albus and Cyclamineus from 'The Garden', 29 Aug 1888. In folder of loose pages of botanical painting prints from published volumes including the 'Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London' and William Curtis, 'The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed'.
Typed biographical interview notes (2pp) on Dorothea de Winton (1891-1982) by Peggy Grayson, a journalist working in the 1950s-90s. Describes childhood, family, education, employment, joining the JI 1 sepia print of Dorothea de Winton and 1 other in a field of flowers.