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Eight paintings of single plums by H C Osterstock pasted together on white card and framed. Each painting on paper between 6.5 x 6 cm and 9 x 7.5 cm, with separate typed labels. Three rows: Row 1 (top): one painting, Prunus Domestica (Prince Englebert); Row 2: five paintings, 'Seedlings from Prince Englebert Selfed; 438, 428, 421, 445, 442'; Row 3 (bottom): two paintings: 'Seedlings from Pershore Selfed; 516, 505', c. 1930s. Frame measures 48 x 38 cm.

Painting of a white flower (tulip?) with blue centre on single long stem, three leaves, white background signed 'HCO', framed and mounted, 28 x 24 cm, c. 1930s. Framed by J Hill, Holt, Norfolk.

Painting (original) of Arabidopsis thaliana by Toni Hayden, 1995. Commissioned by Mike Bevan. Frame by Orford Frames, Red Lion Street, Norwich.

Painting of John Innes (Founder), signed 'H C Osterstock, 1934', 59 x 45.5 cm, with loose label 'John Innes 1829-1904 Founder'. Painted from photograph (Drawer 4, RBR).

Painting of three Rhododendron flowers on a black background by H C Osterstock, mounted on grey green card, unsigned, 26 x 11 cm, c.1930s.

Painting of three studies of tulips, signed HCO, framed and mounted: these are copies of paintings by Sebastian Schedel (1570-1628), Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731-1807) and Jacob van Walscapelle (1644-1727). Back reads: 'Plate XIX of Old Garden Tulips. Left - from a drawing in Schedel Calendarium, 1610 (Kew Library); Middle -Semper Augustus from Buchoz, 1781; Right - from a picture by Walscapelle, c.1700 in the National Gallery'. Framed by Leveton & Sons, Norwich, No. 131 280.

Watercolour painting of Tulipa Kaufmanniana 'Brilliant': 3 tulip flowers painted on white card, in shades of yellow and pink, signed HCO. Used in The Book of the Tulip (1929) by Sir A Daniel Hall, Plate XI

Paintings (watercolour?) of plums on board (44.5 x 35.5 cm): 18 watercolours of plums on individual white card pasted to cream board (each approx. 4.5 x 8 cm), entitled (bottom, middle) 'Seedlings from Prunus Domestica, var. Victoria, selfed'. Top row: top left: two black plums on a leafed branch labelled ''Prunus spinosa 2n=32'; top middle: one apricot coloured plum labelled 'Prunus Domestica var. Victoria, 2n =48'; top right: two plums; one yellow and one purple, labelled 'Prunus Duaricata 2n +16'. Below these are three rows of five individual plums in a variety of colours (red, orange, yellow, green, black and purple) numbered from left to right: top row: 36, 35, 46, 358, 23; midd. row: 5, 143, 35, 186, 71; bott. row: 217, 81, 23, 10, 144. Published in: MB Crane 'Cultivated plants of the past, present, and future', in Endeavour 2 (1943).

Painting on white card of a single red tulip, unidentified, (14 x 13 cm). Signed 'HCO'.. Annotated on reverse 'not used in book'.

Painting on white card of a red tulip labelled 'Tulipa Slapfii'. Single red flower, no leaves. 8.5 x 10.5 cm. Signed 'HCO'. Annotated on reverse "not used in book'.