John Downie Ephemera

• Reference:GB 235 DOW
• Dates of Creation:1857 - 1961
• Name of Creator:
  Downie, John
• Physical Description:
  1 box containing 8 medals; 1 folder containing poem and the 16 seed catalogues to be stored within nursery catalogue collection at 'D'

• Scope and Content

  8 medals:
  1857 Royal Botanic Society of London for pansies
  1868 Glasgow and west of Scotland Horticultural Society for 24 blooms – Dahlias
  1878 Royal Horticultural Society Sir Joseph Banks medal for cut blooms – Pansies
  1897 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Jubilee Prize medal for group of plants
  1901 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for flowering and foliage plants
  1905 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for group of plants – internal exhib
  1908? Leith Horticultural Industrial Sports Society for violas and pansies
  1925 Royal Horticultural Society for hardy flowers
  16 seed catalogues:
  1x Undated but likely Victorian
  the rest dated 1907; 1922; 1927; 1930; 1931; 1942; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1949; 1950; 1952; 1953; 1955; 1961
  1 poem regarding the cessation of the Scottish Horticultural Association in 1921, "The Passing of the Scottish Horticultural Association" by Charles Comfort.

• Arrangement

  medals listed by date and boxed; seed catalogues arranged and listed by date and placed in seed catalogue collection; poem, stored at 'C' in Archives.

• 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/

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  good

• Conditions Governing Use

  Permission required from RBGE

• Additional Information

  published

• Subjects

  Scottish Horticultural Association