A bibliography 1974 - 2008

ARTICLES IN BOOKS, MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS THAT WERE NOT SUBJECT TO PEER REVIEW.

1978

Todea barbara in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. The garden 103: 408

1979

Ireland's flora: its origin and composition, in E. C. Nelson & A. Brady. Irish gardening and horticulture. pp 17-35
The Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland 1816-1980. The garden 104: 422-423
Books from the libraries of Tournefort and Dodoens in Ireland. Society for the Bibliography of Natural History newsletter 5: 6-7
(with E. J. Diestelkamp)Richard Turner's Legacy - the Glasnevin curvilinear glasshouse. Taisce journal 3 (1): 4-5

1980

An Irish mandarin: Augustine Henry (1857-1930). Taisce journal 4 (2): 12-14

1981

The Irish yew. The garden 106: 429-431
A preliminary and interim list of cultivars of Irish origin. Glasnevin: National Botanic Gardens (xeroxed)

1982

Erica ciliaris in Connemara November 1981. Yearbook of The Heather Society: 34-36
Lydia Shackleton 1828-1914. The garden 107: 233-235
In honour of David and Frederick Moore. Moorea 1: 1-4
Romneya coulteri. The garden 107: 454‑456
An Irishman in the country of flowers - Thomas Coulter. Zoonooz 55 (3): 16-19
Nature's drifters. Taisce journal 6 (2): 6-7
Gardening in Ulster, in E. C. Nelson (editor). Northern gardens: gardens and parks of outstanding historic interest in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. pp 5-8
(with D. M. Synnott). The Irish willow and the Irish whitebeam. Yearbook of the International Dendrology Society: 112-114
Munster: north. The living countryside 8 (issue 86): [iv cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
Munster: south‑east. The living countryside 8 (issue 87): [iv cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
Munster: south‑west. The living countryside 8 (issue 89): [iv cover] (Orbis Publ., London)

1983

William McCalla, discoverer of Erica mackaiana. Yearbook of The Heather Society: 28-32
Tropical drift seeds. BSBI news 34: 11-13
Connemara and The Burren. Natural world 9 (Winter/Spring 1983‑1984): 28-29
Fuchsia magellanica. BSBI news 34: 15
Country matters: Tropical drift seeds. The living countryside 9 (issue 105): [i-iii pull-out sect.] (Orbis Publ., London)
The unique flora of Connemara. The living countryside 9 (issue 107): 2121-2123 (Orbis Publ., London)
Ulster south. The living countryside 11 (issue 121): [iv cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
Ulster north‑east. The living countryside 11 (issue 122): [iv cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
Ulster north‑west. The living countryside 11 (issue 123): [iv cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
The Burren: a botanical wonderland. The living countryside 12 (issue 133): 2658-2660 (Orbis Publ., London)
Country matters: An introduction to Ireland. The living countryside 10 (issue 112): [i‑iipull-out sect.] (Orbis Publ., London)
Country matters: Nature notes from Ireland
The living countryside 10 (issue 113 April): [iii pull-out sect.] (Orbis Publ.,London)
The living countryside 10 (issue 117 May): [iii pull-out sect.] (Orbis Publ., London)
The living countryside 11 (issue 121 June): [iii pull-out sect.] (Orbis Publ.,London)
The living countryside 11 (issue 126 July): [i pull-out sect.] (Orbis Publ., London)
The living countryside 11 (issue 130 August): [iii pull-out sect.] (Orbis Publ.,London)
The living countryside 12 (issue 134 September): [iii cover] (Orbis Publ.,London)
The living countryside 12 (issue 139 October): [iii cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
The living countryside 12 (issue 141 November): [iii cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
The living countryside 12 (issue 143 December): [iii cover] (Orbis Publ., London)

1984

Dabeoc - a saint and his heather. Yearbook of The Heather Society: 41-46
Once upon a time - Juliana Ewing. The garden 109: 38-40
Irish primroses. National Primrose and Auricula Society yearbook (Southern): 56-63
The primrose from Garryard,Ireland. Primroses 42 (1):12-13
Primroses. Newsletter of the Irish Garden Plant Society Supplements 1 and 2 [reprinted as a booklet].
Flowers from the Celestial Empire. Field and countryside 2(2, November): 59-60
Augustine Henry - plant collector. Chinese culture, 3 (Dublin: Irish‑Chinese cultural society)
Exotic plants of Ireland. The living countryside 14 (issue 161): 3204-3207 (Orbis Publ., London)
Donegal: a place of paradoxes. The living countryside 14 (issue 168): 3341-3343 (Orbis Publ., London)
Ireland's vanishing peat. The living countryside 15 (issue 169): 3374-3377 (Orbis Publ., London)
By the winding banks of Erne. The living countryside 15 (issue 175): 3498-3500 (Orbis Publ., London)
Country matters: Notes from Ireland
The living countryside 13 (issue 151 January): [iii cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
The living countryside 13 (issue 155 February): [iii cover] (Orbis Publ., London)
The living countryside 14 (issue 159 March): [iv cover] (Orbis Publ., London)

1985

The Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Kew magazine 2: 312-320
Lambs' tails and pussy willows. Field and countryside 2 (5, February): 54-55
Shamrock. An expensive lawn weed. Field and countryside 2 (6, March): 60
Any old apples? Field and countryside 2 (7, April): 57
Wild boy, wild gardens. Field and countryside 2 (8, May): 56-57

1986

Some botanical hoaxes and Chinese puzzles. Kew magazine 3:178-185
Prologue, in S. Connolly and H. Dillon (editors). In an Irish Garden. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. pp 10-17
Old roses for a neophyte. Moorea 5: 3-6
Pinus nigra c.1798 to 1985 at Glasnevin. Moorea 5: 43-44
Carnivorous plants in Ireland: 1. Native species. Carnivorous plants newsletter 15: 41-45, 54
Carnivorous plants in Ireland: 2. Sarracenia purpurea. Carnivorous plants newsletter 15: 45-47
The first Ulsterman in Botany Bay, Surgeon‑General John White. The Linen Hall review 3 (2): 8-9 (incorrectly numbered 3)
Nursery catalogues - a neglected resource? Irish library news 84: 1.
The Long Tradition - Caleb Threlkeld's British plant records. BSBI news 44: 8‑9
Woolly bears devour Dorset heath in Ireland. BSBI news 44: 14.
>Sea peas among tropical drift seeds. BSBI news 44: 16-17
Heathers from Carryduff for limestone pavements. Home gardening 1 (5, September): 18-19
Shipwrecked water nymphs from Sarnia. Home gardening 1 (6, October): 39
The last roses of summer. Home gardening 1 (7, November): 16
Where have all the flowers gone? Home gardening 1 (8, December): 36-37
(with B. Elliott). The strange death of William Robinson. Garden History Society newsletter Autumn 1986:11-12.
(with D. Davison). Buxus camera 'Augustine Henry'. Moorea 5: 11-16
(with B. D. Morley). Corylopsis himalayana in gardens. The garden 111: 190-191

1987

A letter to Mr. Forsyth, Chelsea Physic Garden. Yearbook of the International Dendrology Society 1986: 107-109.
'In Honour of Ireland': the Hibernian contribution to Curtis's Botanical Magazine 1787-1987. Kew magazine 4 (1): 39-51
'A good man's sin', or some Irish naturalists revisited. Irish naturalists' journal 22: 323-324
Begonia x semperflorens 'Scarva Cherry'. Moorea 6:44
A prospectus for Flora Graeca 1806. The Linnean 3 (2): 32-35
Hellen Rawdon - My Booke. Linen Hall review 4 (1): 12-13
A Dundalk farmer's library in 1803. Linen Hall review 4 (3): 14-16
'Plan & section of Mr Bullen's garden stove'. Moorea 6: 8-10
Who was Veronica of The Garden? Newsletter of the Garden History Society 20: 3-4
Dr Walter Wade of Dublin; a missing portrait found. Archives of natural history 14 : 110-111 (see also Archives of natural history 10 (1982): 538).
Why kiss under the mistletoe? Home gardening 1 (9, January): 26-27
The rosydandry is an admiration part 1 - the cultivars. Home gardening 1 (10, February): 22-23
The rosydandry is an admiration part 2 - the species. Home gardening 1 (11, March): 9-10
Happy centenary, Daisy Hill. Home gardening 2 (13, May): 24
Ireland's own. Home gardening 2 (14, June): 32-33
Trinity three hundred. Home gardening 2 (16, September): 28-29
A growing obsession [notes for television series]. [Dublin: RTE]
(with J. G. D. Lamb). Prunus 'Woodfield Cluster'. Moorea 6: 27
(with Wendy Walsh). Genesis of a tribute to Trinity College Botanic Garden. Moorea 6: 45

1988

Some Australasian ferns in Irish gardens. Kew magazine 5: 129-136
Ephemera from an Irish garden -; roses at Birr in 1878. Moorea 7:47-49
A growing obsession [notes for television series] [Dublin: RTE]
A selection of paintings and other works by Wendy Walsh. Catalogue of exhibition at the Boole Library, 3-14 October 1988. Cork: University College Cork & Plant Biotechnology UCC Ltd.

1989

Why the shamrock became extinct in 1988. Linen Hall review 6 (1): 12-13
Introduction to growing nickars: Glasnevin, nickars and other early tales: Seeds of Entada sp.from the Australian coast. Moorea 8: 1-5, 12-13
Eileen May McCracken (1920-1988).Moorea 8: 50

1990

Groping after ferns in the fifteenth century. Pteridologist 2 (1): 21-23
Richard Turner, an introductory portrait. Moorea 9: 2-5
Garden flowers [Narcissus 'Foundling', Rosa x hibernica; Primula 'Rowallane Rose'; Erica erigena 'Irish Dusk']. Irish philatelic bulletin 8-90
(with M. R. D. Seaward). Evelyn Mary Booth 1897-1988. Glasra 1 (n.s.): 87-89
(with S. Andrews) Carpenteria californica. The plantsman 12 (3): 188

1991

Plants from China a guided walk. National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.
Small ad for giant hogweed. BSBI news 57: 26-27

1992

Camellia and Ireland: some backward glances. New Zealand camellia bulletin 17 (4): 3-6; - (5): 2-6
The Burren. British wildlife 4 (2): 96-99, 102-107
The sweet little shamrock, the dear little shamrock. Ireland of the welcomes 41 (2): 12-16 [reprinted with new title and new illustration. A botanist looks at shamrock, pp 268-270, in L. C. Carola (editor), The Irish. A treasury of art and literature. 1993. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc. Inc.]
Proteaceae in Ireland. Zimbabwe Protea Association newsletter (January 1992): 2-5
Some things old, some things new [X Cupressocyparis leylandii 'Olive's Green'; Aubrieta 'Mabestown Blue'; Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Nutty's Leprechaun'; Pittosporum 'Little John']. Irish Garden Plant Society newsletter 44: 12-13
Fair maids of February. The Irish garden 1 (1: February/March): 12-13
Honeysuckle twines round the porch ... The Irish garden 1 (2: April-May): 6-7

1993

'It died on me' - the perilous lives of Ireland's garden plants. Moorea 10: 35-40
Botany Mountain, Ireland: 1690s-1990s: or, Edward Lhuyd and an Irish myth. BSBI news 63: 21-22
Bruckenthalia spiculifolia f. albiflora - an early report from Bulgaria, 1911. Yearbook of The Heather Society 1993: 35-36
Chelsea cedars. The garden 118: 531
The other Glasnevin. The Irish garden 2 (1: January-February): 16-18
From darkest Peru and chilliest Chile. The Irish garden 2 (2: March-April): 20-22
Donard delights. The Irish garden 2 (4: July-August): 14-16
Orchids for everyman and the Mullingar connection. The Irish garden 2 (5: September-October): 16-18
Second nature. The Irish garden 2 (6: November-December): 12-13
A botanist looks at shamrock, in L. C. Carola (editor). The Irish. A treasury of art and literature. pp 268-270. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc. Inc. [reprinted from Ireland of the welcomes 41 (2) (1992): 12-16.]
(with S. Harrison). Prunus laurocerasus cv. Castlewellan (not cv. Marbled White). Moorea 10: 44-45
(with B. Jupp) Demesne and gardens, in [P. Rankin (editor)]. Hillsborough Castle. pp 32-36. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.

1994

Saint Bridgid, some daffodils and a host of anemones. Newsletter of the Northern Ireland daffodil group 4 (4): 8-11
Blowing in the wind. The Irish garden 3 (1: January-February): 6-8
My lords and ladies and great sexy dragons. The Irish garden 3 (2: March-April): 6-8
On the trail of the big cone pine. The Irish garden 3 (4: July-August): 30-32
Golden apples. The Irish garden 3 (5: September-October): 30-31
A limestone land above the clouds. The Irish garden 3 (6: November-December): 12-14

1995

The art of flowers. [Catalogue for] National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, bicentenary exhibition 1995. Botanical illustrations by Wendy Walsh and Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe. The Stationery Office, Dublin.
Patrick Browne's flowers. Mayo Association yearbook 1995: 62-63.
Glasnevin: two centuries of cultivars. The garden 120: 598-601.
The name of the rose ... [Tropaeolum'Margaret Long', * (H. Dillon) Dianthus 'Chomley Farran', Galanthus 'Emerald Isle']. The Irish garden 4 (1: January-February): 30-32
Two centuries of new plants. The Irish garden 4 (3: May-June): supplement [4-5]
From Mayo to the Caribbean. The Irish garden 4 (4: July-August): 28-30
For whom the bell blooms. The Irish garden 4 (6: November-December): 10-12
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Retrospect and prospect. Curtis's botanical magazine 12: 182-185.

1996

Casual observations (1982, 1994) on Erica tetralix L. in Picos de Europa, Asturias, Spain. Yearbook of The Heather Society 1996: 47-48.
The flowers of Mayo. Ireland of the welcomes 45 (1): 12-16
(with Sue Nelson) Weeping elder, Sambucus nigra L. f. pendula Dippel, wild in West Norfolk.BSBI news 71: 27.
A rainbow of iris. The Irish garden 5 (3 May/June): 34-36.
Joel Poinsett's Christmas cracker, and an Irish fisherman's friend. The Irish garden 5 (6 November/December): 12-14
Notes on Australasian specimens in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN: Herb. McNab) relating to the second edition of Aiton's Hortus Kewensis. Newsletter of the Australian Systematic Botany Society 89: 21-25.

1997

Botanists and botany in literature [Ulota by W. R. Megaw]. BSBI news 75: 22-23
A garden of bright images: art treasures at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Irish arts review 14 (Yearbook 1998): 40-51
Thunderbolts and wooden enemies. The Irish garden 6 (2 March): 38-40
The other Mallorca, ... off the beaten track. The Irish garden 6 (4 May): 6-8
A king among flowers ... some lilies with Irish connections. The Irish garden 6 (6 July/August): 40-41
The Moores of Willbrook. The Irish garden 6 (8 October): 36-38
On an Oregon trail. The Irish garden 6 (9 November/December): 10-12
Magnolia. Gardens illustrated 29 (December/January 1997/1998): 54-63.

1998

Charlotte Cuffe in Burma. The Irish garden 7 (1 January/February): 38-40.
The dawn redwood's golden jubilee. The Irish garden 7 (2 March): 44-45.
Dr O'Kelly, I presume. The Irish garden 7 (4 May): 44-45, 47
Carrying the torch [Kniphofia]. The Irish garden 7 (6 July): 14-17.
Palmy ways. The Irish garden 7 (7 August): 44-46.
Forty shades of green and white. The Irish garden 7 (8 September): 48-51.
A picking of poppies. The Irish garden 7 (9 October): 14-17.
A garland from an Irish glebe. The Irish garden 7 (10 November/December): 4-9 [Wendy Walsh's former garden].

1999

A carnivorous plant on an Irish postage stamp: David Moore and Sarracenia hybrids at Glasnevin Botanic Gardens. Carnivorous plant newsletter 28: 3-7.
Dublin -v- Belfast: two urban floras. Irish botanical news 9: 4-12.
Keeping them alive. The Irish garden 8 (1 January/February): 44-47.
Butterfly bushes. The Irish garden 8 (2 March): 16-20.
By the Palmiet River in Kogelberg. The Irish garden 8 (3 April): 42-43, 45.
Plant hunting in Crete. The Irish garden 8 (5 June): 6-10.
Ace of spathes [Arisaema]. Gardens illustrated (February): 58–67. [reprinted in The Daily Telegraph (Saturday 13 March 1999): 15 (under headline ‘The world’s loveliest turnip’); and pp 214–221, in R. Atkins (editor), 2003. Gardens Illustrated Plant profiles. London: BBC Books.]

2000

Sea-beans [Entada gigas] in the Cambridgeshire fens, 2000. BSBI news no. 85: 27.
Viking ale and the quest for the impossible: some marginalia leading, perhaps, to ‘the most powerfullest drink ever known’. Yearbook of the Heather Society: 25–33.
Bell heather: Erica cinerea. Yearbook of The Heather Society: 34.
A mixed-up heather—what is Erica mackaiana ‘Lawsoniana’. Yearbook of The Heather Society: 77–80.
Sweet as the primrose peers beneath the thorn. The Irish garden 9 (2): 18–22.
Rip van Winkle and the Cork connection [W. B. Hartland]. The Irish garden 9 (3): 68–70 [daffodils].
From the Arctic to Belfast [Thomas Drummond]. The Irish garden 9 (4): 76–79.
Shapes for the border [Umbelliferae/Apiaceae]. The Irish garden 9 (5): 18–22.
The last rose of summer. The Irish garden 9 (9): 46–48 [Rosa chinensis 'Old Blush'; Thomas Moore].

2001

Index to Society for the History of Natural History newsletters. London: The Society for the History of Natural History. 2001. Pp 16.
Towards a taxonomic revision of the Telecomicaceae? BSBI news no. 87: 9-10.
Why the shamrock became extinct in 1988. Wild Ireland 2 (2): 58-60.
Intrepid travellers [Irish plant-hunters]. The Irish garden 10 (2): 52-55.
Waving handkerchiefs [Davidia involucrata]. The Irish garden 10 (3): 72-75.
The Killarney fern [Trichomanes speciosum]. The Irish garden 10 (7): 66-69.
Master Jon Gardener's herbs. The Irish garden 10 (9): 46-48.
Dr Charles Stuart's heather rediscovered in Connemara, Ireland. Yearbook of The Heather Society: 35-37 [Erica ×stuartii].
North from the Cape to Namaqualand. Wild Ireland 3 (2): 52-54
A rich bachelor and Molly the Witch [William Edward Gumbleton and Paeonia mlokosewitschii]. The Irish garden 11 (1): 52-55.
South Pacific islanders [Olearia and other plants from Chatham Islands, New Zealand]. The Irish garden 11 (4): 72-75.
In Praeger's Canarian footsteps [Lanzarote]. The Irish garden 11 (7): 50-53.
Glowing with a soft light [Lilium sulphureum, Shan lily, from Burma (Myanmar)]. The Irish garden 11 (8): 52-54.
Roses as rent – an ancient tradition. Plant-lore notes and news no 74: 359.

2003

Cat heather. Plant-lore notes and news no. 76: 369-370 [amended version in Bulletin of The Heather Society 6 (9): 7-8]
The Ulsterman, the Londoner and a very sensitive plant [Arthur Dobbs, Peter Collinson, Dionaea muscipula (tippitiwitchet)]. The Irish garden 12 (3): 64-67.
Graham Stuart Thomas and Ireland's gardens. The Irish garden 12 (6): 58-61.
(with W. H. King) William Robinson in North America. The Irish garden 12 (8): 54-57.
James Townsend Mackay - Trinity College botanist. The Irish garden 12 (10): 54-56.
Who's that heather named after? 1. Erica ciliaris 'Mawiana'. Bulletin of The Heather Society 6 (10): 5-6.

2004

Foreword, in R. Levy-Yamamori and G. Taaffe, Garden plants of Japan. Timber Press, Portland (Oregon) & Cambridge. Pp 7–8.
(with S. J. Wright) Diana of the heathers. Heathers (Yearbook of The Heather Society) 1: 42-51.
Inge Oliver (1947-2003). Heathers (Yearbook of The Heather Society) 1: 55-56.
New heather discovered on BBC! Bulletin of The Heather Society 6 (11): 8–10 [Erica cinerea 'Romantic Scotland'].
The enigma of the alien heathers of Britain, especially Erica ×darleyensis. BSBI news no. 95: 13-14 + illust. p. 2.
Chaos theory, and identity crisis for Madonna's heather [Erica cinerea 'Romantic Scotland'], and zilch orders. Heather news quarterly 27 (1): 15-16.
Changes in the nomenclature of heathers: new code, new classes, new names. Heather news quarterly 27 (4): 8-11.
A regal abode; the story of Victoria regia in Dublin. The Irish garden 13 (2): 60-63.
'When the swifts appear turn out the greenhouse' [John Templeton, of Cranmore, Malone, Belfast]. The Irish garden 13 (4): 56-59.
An 18th-century Irish herbal [John Keogh's Botanalogia universalis hibernicarum]. The Irish garden 13 (7): 50-53.
Nickars and hamburger beans (photographs by Ed Perry). The Irish garden 13 (8): 52-55.
Two hundred years on ... [Irish links with the Royal Horticultural Society of London]. The Irish garden 13 (9): 52-55.
A note on the publication dates of (early) "parts" of Thomas Martyn's edition of Philip Miller's The gardener's and botanist's dictionary (1795-1807). SHNH newsletter no. 79: 16-17.
What is Irish heath? Or, the baffling matter of common/colloquial/vernacular names for heathers (with apologies to the editors of Heather notes)! Bulletin of The Heather Society 6 (13): 13–15.
Memoirs of a short-sighted Irish sea-beaner. The drifting seed 10 (2 September): 2–3.
Heather used to decorate graves on All Souls’ Day in Germany. Plant-lore notes and news no. 83: 408.
Die Sortennamen für zweier bemerkenswerter Heidezüchtungen. [Erica spiculifolia × bergiana; 'Edewecht Belle', 'Edewecht Blush';  translated by Jürgen Schröder.] Der Heidegarten 56: 52-57.

2005

Cultivar names for two remarkable heathers from Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany. Heathers 2: 19–22. [A revised version of the paper, translated into German by Jürgen Schröder, published in Der Heidegarten 56: 52–57 (2004). See also Cultivar names for a remarkable heathers from Kurt Kramer. Heather news quarterly 28 (2): 7–9. ]
(with J. V. Aubrey) Fred Esgate (1911–2003): the last breeder of Cape heaths in Britain. Heathers 2: 35–44.
(with E. G. H. Oliver) Chromosome numbers in Erica — an updated checklist. Heathers 2: 57–58.
(with D. T. Moore) Notes on Robert Brown’s herbarium specimens in The Natural History Museum, London (BM): Irish specimens. Irish botanical news no. 15: 17–20.
The enigma of the alien heathers of Britain, especially Erica ×darleyensis. Bulletin of The Heather Society 6 (15): 4-6.
For luck and love ... the origins of "lucky" white heather. The Scots magazine, new series, 163: 250–253.
The ‘compleat and proper’ plant-hunter [Colonel Edward Madden]. The Irish garden 14 (3): 64–66.
Rare and fashionable — and a tale of two earls. The Irish garden 14 (4): 70–72, 75 [Cape heaths in Glasnevin].
Dear Mr Darwin [Charles Darwin’s Irish correspondents]. The Irish garden 14 (8): 54–57.
A tale of two palm houses. The Irish garden 14 (9): 58–60.
‘Musing among the vegetables?’: Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf [Botanists in literature – 37]. BSBI news 100: 30–31.

2006

Miss Irene Fawkes’s Heather – the "cover story". Heathers 3: ii, 19–21.
Lucky white heather: a sesquicentential review of a Scottish Victorian conceit. Heathers 3: 38–46.
Notes on heather seeds II: Dimensions of seeds. Heathers 3: 53, 55.
A Kerry diary: 3 September 2005. Heathers 3: 56–58.
A review of new botanical names published in Yearbook of The Heather Society, series 1 (1963–1993) and series 2 (1994–2003). Heathers 3: 59–61.
Botanists in literature; some light relief? [Botanists in literature – 41]. BSBI news 102: 42.
How far north can drift seeds be found in eastern North America? The drifting seed 12 (2): 2–5.
John Dalton (1766–1844), a self-confessed colour-blind botanist, and a circle of English Lakeland botanists. BSBI news 103: 22–25.
The problem of Leonardo’s botanical illustrations. Leonardo da Vinci Society newsletter no. 26: [3–4].
The amiable Burbidge. The Irish garden 15 (1): 56–59.
Garden crime and some rather original murders. The Irish garden 15 (4): 70–73. [Gardening in novels of Sheila Pim].
"Excellent as the cedars" The Irish garden 15 (5): 68–71. [Cedrus libani in Irish gardens].
Charming views and sweet inequalities. The Irish garden 15 (6): 58–61. [Joseph Spence and Very Revd Dr Thomas Paul, Dean of Cashel; garden design in County Cavan].
Floral gems from the Celestial Empire. The Irish garden 15 (8): 56–59. [Plants from China; Revd Fr Hugh Scallan].
Motoring after remarkable trees. The Irish garden 15 (9): 58–61. [Henry J. Elwes and Dr Augustine Henry; trees in Ireland].
Butterflies and heathers. Bulletin of The Heather Society 6 (19): 18.