Item HCO/1/5/2/6 - Flax

Extent: 1 folder

• 4 paintings, 14 b & w photographs and 2 labels from envelope labelled 'Flax, photos & paintings, Miss Gairdner': 1. Painting of 6 individual Flax flowers in 2 rows (shades of mauve, purple, pink) annotated with cross numbers, no date. 2. Painting of Flax flowers, side-view showing 7 semi-open flowers (blue, white) and top of stem, in 2 rows, 4 on top 3 below, labelled 'normal flowers, male-sterile, male-sterile' on top paper, underneath has more annotations in pencil, signed 'HCO' and dated June 1921. 3. Painting of 3 Flax flowers (mauve, blue) labelled 'Dk Blue, Ordinary Blue, Heterozygous Blue, White x Canadian 65/19, no date, c 1919. 4. Painting of 3 Flax flowers (mauve, blue) labelled 'Dark Blue, Ordinary Blue, Heterozygous Blue, dated July 1919. 5.-7. Black & white photograph of 3 flower seed heads[?] and stems, 1 mounted on white card labelled 'ordinary, male-sterile', 2 x unmounted. 8. Black & white photograph of 3 flowers, mounted on white card labelled 'ordinary, male-sterile', no date. 9.-11. Black & white photograph (x 3) of 3 flower seed heads[?] and stems, back reads 'with some pollen', no date. 12.-14. Black & white photograph (x 3) of 3 flower seed heads[?] and stems, no date. 15.-18. Black & white photograph (x 4) of 2 bunches of dried flowers, 1 mounted on white card, labelled 'Linum usitatissimum, Procumbent, Ordinary fibre', 3 unmounted, dated Aug 1924. 19.-20. 2 labels: '
• Flax' and ''Normal flowers, male-sterile'.