Major accessions to repositories in 2016 relating to Gardening

Local

Dundee City Archives

• Dundee Horticultural Society: minutes, cash books and papers 1874-2016 (GD/X1368)
• East of Scotland Horticultural Society: minutes 1935-1946 (GD/X1368)

East Sussex Record Office

• Newick Horticultural Society: records incl minutes c1835-2010 (12501)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

• Grace Claudia Walker (fl 1957-1994), gardener of Seaview: gardening diaries incl plantings and costings 1957-1994 (AC2016/072)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office

• Elford Hall Garden Restoration Project: papers rel to business case, grant applications and progress reports 2005-2013 (7486)

National

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• George W Robinson (d 1976), curator of Chelsea Physic Garden: notebooks, photographs and postcards 1920-1929 (PrP 16-0006)

University

Museum of English Rural Life

• Women's Farm and Garden Association: additional records rel to travel bursaries for research 20th cent (DX 2160)

St Andrews University Library

• Friends of St Andrews Botanic Garden: records 1980-2015 (ms38997)