Botany and Gardening Resources in the Special Collections Research Center

Mss 2009.244, includes a ledger showing "Products of the Farm and Garden," 1882-1903

Mss 78 G73, Series 2, Group 2, Box 3, folder 31, has a notebook of Elisabeth J. Galt, undated, containing rubbings and identifications of wildflowers

Mss 2008.181, includes a list of flowers

Mss 2008.209, has primarily printed material relating to the Rachel Hunt Miller Botanical Library at what is now Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh

has correspondence of William Pringle, who ran a seed business in England, and his brother John, a tailor in Georgetown, Maryland (later D.C.), who often acted as his agent in selling seeds in America

Mss 2007.52, has invoices and a ledger for a florist's business

Mss 65 Sk3, includes numerous items relating to the garden at Prestwould, the Skipwith family home, and to Lady Jean Skipwith, including garden notes (box 21, folder 32); Lady Jean Skipwithi's notes on shrubs, trees, and flowers (box 23, folder 4); and a manuscript volume with notes on gardening (box 25, folder 3)

Mss MsV Np1, has notes on several subjects, including botany, by a New Market, Virginia resident

are a series of letters from prominent persons to Spingarn, then president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons; most of the letters are about horticulture

Mss 92 T19, Folder 12, item 3, MsV 3, is a manuscript volume that includes lists of flowers