Item HCO/1/4/1/7 - Godetia

Extent: 1 folder

Album: (41.5 x 27.3 cm), brown card cover with metal hinges, entitled 'Godetia', photo mount pages with a mix of watercolour paintings and black and white and hand-coloured photographs on paper and card. Pg 1: 5 x Paintings: 1. Painting of four single Godetia petals in different shades of pink, on white card, annotated with 'family' and numbers. Back reads 'Godetia, Sep 1922. 2. Painting of a single Godetia flower, on white card, mauve-pink, bottom inscribed 'Double Mauve'. 3. Painting of two single Godetia petals in different shades of pink, on white card, inscribed with numbers, seed no, 'famili', dated Aug 1923. 4. Painting of four single Godetia petals in different shades of pink, red and white, on white card, names of varieties written underneath, from left to right 'Bride' etc. No date. 4. Painting of a single Godetia petal, white, pink, mauve-pink, on white card, dated Aug 1924. Pg. 2: 1 x Photograph: 1. B & w photograph of eleven plants in pots, back reads 'Godetia seedlings 1926, F2' etc. Pg. 3: 3 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of a Godetia plant. dated Aug 1924. 2. B & w photograph of two Godetia plants from above, dated June 1924. 3. B & w photograph of numerous Godetia plants in flower, no date. Pg 4: 3 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of Godetia plants in a tent[?], no date. 2. B & w photograph of a Godetia plant from above. Back reads 'Family 1B/23 height 105 metres' etc., dated July 192[?] 3. B & w photograph of a Godetia plant from the side by a label reading '4C/23, no date. Pg. 5: 2 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of five suspended bunches of drying Godetia plants, back reads, 'The numbers refer to the 1923 Families, e.g. 34/23 etc.'. 2. B & w photograph of five suspended bunches of drying Godetia plants, back reads, 'The numbers refer to' etc.' Pg. 6: 4 x Paintings and 1 x Photograph: 1. Painting on white card of three single Godtia flowers of different varieties (one pink, two mauve), labeled underneath from left 'Godetia Boltee', 'Lav. gem'; and 'God. O. Lepeid' and one single petal and stamen labeled 'Rubie[?] Lav', 'all natural size', no date. 2. Painting on white card of a single mauve Godetia petal 'Lav. gem'. 3. Painting on white card of a single mauve Godetia flower and a petal, dated July 1924. 4. Painting on white card of a single mauve Godetia flower and a petal, dated July 1925. 5. B & w photograph of nine pots of seedlings with numbered labels, back reads 'The numbers refer to the 1923 families' Pg. 7: 2 x Photographs: 1. Hand-coloured photograph of Godetia flowers (dark/pale pink), back reads 'F from Crimson, flowers appeared on [?] branches .....sectional branches (in being partly like the F9 & partly like Bride) or wholly like Bride. Branch A. Branch B.' No date. 2. B & w photograph of Godetia flowers (as above), back reads 'Branch A' 'Branch B', no date. Pg. 8: --------- Pg. 9: 1 x Photograph: 1. B & w photograph of two seedling plants left and right of a more mature plant against white background, back reads ''Family 51/24', dated June 1924. Pg. 10: 3 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of 2 bunches of drying Godetia plants, back reads 'Bridesmaid' and 'Dwarf Pink, dated Aug 1923. 2. B & w photograph of Godetia plant, back reads 'Crimson King', dated Sep 1922. 3. B & w photograph of a suspended drying Godetia plant, top inscribed 'tall Duchess of albany intermediate', back reads same, dated Aug 1923. Pg. 11: 2 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of a Godetia plant, no date. 2. B & w photograph of pots of Godetia plants lined up against a brick wall, back reads 'Amoena Whitneyi, F2s etc at far end', etc., dated Aug 1926. Pg. 12: 2 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of a Godetia plant, showing flowers, black background, back reads 'Godetia', dated Sep 1922. 2. B & w photograph of a Godetia plant, showing flowers, black background, back reads 'Godetia, Bride', dated Sep 1922.