Nursery lists
Each row below is one printed issue. The reference number is the order in which the society acquired the issue, not the year of printing. Sizes are the total of the page masters, with the cover and back cover included.
| Issue | Reference | Pages | Format | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring list, 1889 | FB-C-0004 | 24 | TIFF | 3.3 GB |
| Annual list, 1911 | FB-C-0061 | 48 | TIFF | 8.6 GB |
| Supplement, 1934 | FB-C-0118 | 16 | TIFF | 2.1 GB |
| Catalogue, 1958 | FB-C-0203 | 72 | TIFF | 14.9 GB |
The 1958 catalogue is the largest issue in the section, with 72 pages and eight colour plates. Each plate was photographed twice, once for the printed colour and once for the surface of the paper, so the plate files are the heaviest in the set.
The society has indexed 97 of the 214 issues to the level of the individual entry. The rest are indexed to decade only, and the index marks which is which, so a reader knows before opening a file how much of it has been read.
Full-size lists are large. An issue with plates runs to 15 GB or more, and the seed catalogue collection as a whole comes to more than 600 GB of master files.