Physical description

2 Cloth bound books with leather spine and corners on front and back cover - 399 pages each. The books each have hand inked alphabetical indexes. They are scrapbooks used to catelogue a variety of articles from newspapers and magazines 1927-1940 - glued or pinned in place. In Book 1 most articles are concerned with general articles about plants, disease management in the districts, growing media and horticultural techniques. There are also cuttings about Botanical Gardens and significant horticulturalists of the day. Book two is thematically Garden and kitchen garden cuttings. It includes one about a Burnley Flower Competition (P58) and an article by Edna Walling "To Save the Elms". These may have been used to inform teaching at Burnley. Subsequently each scrap book has been stored with a detailed 7 page handwritten list of contents in page order by the cataloguer (Elizabeth Hill, 1994). Not all pages are used. 2 inserts in plastic sleeves are in the rear of the first book B92.0584 a and b.

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