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By Helen Briggs
image captionThe handwritten inscription reads Mrs Allen, La Botaniste
When sorting through books gathering dust in the attic, it s common to find mementos of the past such as a poem, a pressed-flower, or a letter.
But when staff at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) went through hundreds of old plant books, they stumbled on a collection of botanical treasures the likes of which they d never seen before.
Tucked inside a copy of The English Flora from 1830 were poems, doodles, plant specimens and a cartoon.
Judging by the contents, the owner was a keen plants woman. But her name, Isabella A Allen, appears to have slipped from history.
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Buckingham girl designs care home garden dedicated to grandad
Isabella Allen from Buckingham has won a garden design competition run by Brackley Care Home
Tuesday, 11th May 2021, 12:12 pm
A new family garden at Brackley Care Home will be dedicated to the memory of a Second World War veteran whose granddaughter designed it.
Isabella Allen, aged 12, who attends The Buckingham School, used watercolours to depict a peaceful garden with bright, scented flowers and a fish pond with a water feature.
When told she had won, beating more than 100 other impressive entries, Isabella said she had been inspired by her grandfather Shirley Allen, known as Shirl, who served in the Eighth Army in Italy during the war.