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Robertson Munro

1843/4–1922

Scottish nurseryman and florist. Premises at 6 St Andrew Street (South), Edinburgh, and nurseries at Jock’s Lodge and Abercorn. Published a paper on fertility in Passiflora (Munro 1868). Associate member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1870–1900.

Sources

Census returns of Scotland 1871 (The National Archives of Scotland: Leith South 1/4), 1901 (Johnstone and Elderslie17/9)

Post Office Edinburgh directory 1870–1, 1890–1

Scotland statutory deaths 644/16 282 (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 9 July 2019)

Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 21 (1900): 372

Bibliography

Post Office Edinburgh directory: Post-Office annual directory and calendar. Post-Office Edinburgh and Leith directory. Edinburgh: Ballantyne & Hughes [and others]. 1845–1908.

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