Major accessions to repositories in 1998 relating to Gardening

Local

Devon Record Office

• Stockland Allotments Association: records incl minutes 1918-45 (5650)

Essex Record Office

• Great Yeldham Cottage Garden Society: records incl minutes 1917-86 (A10228: D/Z 330)

Falkirk Museums History Research Centre (Falkirk Archives)

• Falkirk Horticultural Society: records incl minutes 1878-1997 (A1080-81)

Hillingdon Local Studies and Archives

• Ickenham and Swakeleys Horticultural Society: records 1943-92 (MC16)

Jersey Archive

• Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society: records 1833-1995 (JA/185)

Joint Archive Service of the Corporation of London: London Metropolitan Archives

• Ampthill Square Garden Committee, St Pancras: minutes, accounts and plans (LMA/4059)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

• Cleethorpes and District Horticultural Society: records 1947-97 (1108)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Annesley Garden Association: minutes and accounts 20th cent (DD 2147)

Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre

• Peeblesshire Junior Agricultural Club: records 1951-97 (SBA/42)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• Ipswich and East of England Horticultural Society: minutes 1973-97 (GC424)

Surrey History Centre

• Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer: papers rel to her book 'Old West Surrey' 1904 (6521)

Worcestershire Record Office, County Hall Branch

• Webbs, seed merchants and nurserymen, Wychbold: deeds (BA12 666)

National

National Archives of Scotland

• Royal Scottish Forestry Society: records incl minutes c1806-1976 (GD1/1214)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, entomologist: papers rel to irises and plant lists for gardens at Tring and Ashton Wold c1900-23 (Acc PrP 98-0012)