Pages 1-189 lists of Horticultural department purchases, pages 190-end contains misc. notes on bedding varieties, potting composts, plant husbandry, spraying, seed sowing . Index at front of book.
; Author: Krause, Ernst; Publication Place: Leipzig; Publisher: Ernst Gunther's Verlag
; Author: Butler, Samuel; Publication Place: London; Publisher: Trubner and Co
- Six small paintings of wallflowers in shades of yellow, red and pink/white on white card (approx 6 x 4.5 cm) glued on cream card (16.1 x 24.1 cm), signed 'H C Osterstock'. One of the glued on paintings is missing (top, left). Back inscribed 'The Inheritance of Factors in Cheiranthus Cheiri in Genetics (by G E Gairdner)'. Original for Plate XVII in Genetics, Vol 32., Issue 3., July 1936. 2. Painting of three sprays of wallflower [?] leaves on white card (10.9 x 23.3 cm). From the collection of tulip paintings donated by Peter Matthews (HCO/1/1/1).
Black & white photograph of flowers, back reads 'Erythronium, White Beauty', no date.
ESC Conference 'Patents in Genetic engineering Micro-Organisms and Plants, London, 8 Mar, 1979
6 paintings of petals, 10 sepia photographs and 1 note. From an envelope labelled 'Eschscholzia' and addressed to A E Gairdner, JIHI: 1. Painting of 3 petals (purple, red and pink) on white card, annotated '8/34, 1/34, 63/35, maroon, scarlet', signed 'HCO', no date. 2. Painting of 1 flower and 1 petal (pink, white) annotated '38/44[?] Mab, 38/35 Back', signed 'HCO', no date. 3. Painting of 3 petals (yellow, orange/yellow), annotated 'out, in, in, 27/34', signed 'HCO', no date. 4. Painting of 2 petals (orange, red/orange), annotated 'inside, orange. 9/34, outside, red orange', signed 'HCO', no date. 5. Painting of 2 petals (pink) annotated 'out, in, light carmine', signed 'HCO', no date. 6. Painting of 2 petals (pale yellow) annotated 'in, out, 27/34 short', signed 'HCO', no date. 7.-9. Sepia photograph (x3) of 2 flower heads, back reads 'Esch, yellow f[....?], no date. 10. Sepia photograph of 1 flower and 1 petal, back reads '38/35, fl and back of petal', no date 11.-12. Sepia photograph of a petal x 2. 13.-16. Sepia photograph (x 4) of 10 petals with male/female symbols and 'Fi' and 'F 2 11/35' labels, no date. 17. Paper, 1 p, list written in pencil headed 'finished photos & colours', signed 'H C Osterstock, dated 1928.
; Author: Poulton, Edward Bagnall; Publication Place: Oxford; Publisher: Clarendon Press
; Author: Butler, Samuel; Publication Place: London; Publisher: Grant Richards
; Author: Weismann, August; Publication Place: Oxford; Publisher: Clarendon Press