Item HCO/1/4/1/4 - Antirrhinum (Snapdragons)

Extent: 1 folder

Album: (41.5 x 27.3 cm), brown card cover, 5 pages loose inside, entitled 'Antirrhinum', photo mount style pages with b & w photographs. Pg.1: 2 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of Antirrhinums in two pots, back inscribed ' cuttings showing the structure intermediate between "sepals" & leaves to be found on the early growth of the cuttings', dated Nov 1922. 2. B & w photograph of Antirrhinum in one pot labelled 'Abnormal Ant.', back inscribed 'Basal cutting from abnormal plant showing no tendency to abnormality. Grows normally but at flowering time it shows same abnormality as the other siblings', dated Nov [19]22. Pg.2: 3 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of Antirrhinum in one pot labelled 'Abnormal Ant Stem Cuttings 5.'. Back reads 'cutting from stem showing a tendency to abnormality', Nov [19]22. 2. B & w photograph of Antirrhinum in one pot labelled 'Abnormal Ant Stem Cuttings' Back inscribed with a description of the abnormal growth. Not dated. 3. B & w photograph of Antirrhinum in one pot labelled 'Abnormalant Practeate Cuttings, Nov 22'. Back reads 'A cutting from "sepaloid "stem etc. Pg.3: 2 x Photographs (1 missing?): 1. B & w photograph showing flowering stem of Antirrhinum. Back reads 'Antirrhinum , original plant' Dated Sep 1922. 2. B & w photograph showing unopened flowering stem of Antirrhinum. Back reads 'Antirrhinum , original plant' Dated Sep 1922. Pg 4: 3 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph showing Antirrhinum plant growing from ground, top in flower. Back reads 'a cutting from original abnormal', dated 25.8.[19]23. 2. B & w photograph showing Antirrhinum tip, part flowering, back reads 'Plant 8. Delilah form of fl{ower]. Red lipped, white throated, yellow central blotch on upper lip. Seedling nat[ural] from abnormal.' Dated 9 Nov [19]23. 3. B & w photograph showing Antirrhinum tip, back reads 'Plant 7, Nat[ural] seed from abnormal showing a similar abnormality to the original except that the structures are more leaf like than sepaloid'. Dated 25.8 [19]23. Pg 5. 1. B & w photograph showing two Antirrhinum plants growing from ground, tops in flower. Back reads '2nd season of observation of original abnormal Antirrhinum. dated 25.8.[19]23