RBGE Plant Labels

• Reference:GB 235 HDE
• Dates of Creation:1900 - 1970
• Name of Creator:
  Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Horticulture Department
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  7 labels in a small white box.

• Scope and Content

  Plant labels found by members of the RBGE Horticulture Department and transferred to the Archives:
  1: Magnolia acuminata, United States - found to the east of the copse, RBGE; a label intended to hang from the tree, this type of label had the impressed letters painted white by hand, then the entire label was hand painted black - would have been surrounded by a metal holder which has since decomposed - probably dates to around 1940?
  2: Ilex laevigata; a temporary label found during excavations for the new Alpine House, 2012 - small label attached to wire which would have been pushed into the ground - probably dates to c.1960?
  3: Viburnum dilatatum, c.1960? - temporary label from new Alpine House area.
  4: Viburnum farreri - 'layers' - found in Nursery, troughs area - used when 'layering' viburnum - obtaining shoots from roots or branches.
  5: Alpinia calcarata
  6: Rhododendron hodgsonii
  7: LA47

• Access Information

  Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/

• Acquisition Information

  RBGE Horticulture Department

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  corroded

• Conditions Governing Use

  Permission required from RBGE.

• Custodial History

  Labels 1-4 were found by Horticulturist S. Ainslie who transferred them to the RBGE Archives in September 2013.

• Accruals

  The box is added to as more labels are found and transferred.

• Additional Information

  published

  HDE

  GB 235

• Subjects

  RBGE Ephemera