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.
5 biscuit coloured folders (29.8 x 24.1 cm) with title written in calligraphic style with black ink : 'Barbarea Vulgaris', 'Tropaeolum', 'Sphaeralcea', 'Begonia' and 'Photos-veronica, Maize, Leycesteria Var-d'. Folders contain a mixture of loose photographs and paintings. See also Wallflower. folder HCO/1/5/3/14 probably belongs to this group.
Folder, entitled 'Begonia' containing four paintings of begonias: 1. Small watercolour of a single red begonia flower, white centre, on white card glued onto brown card (9.5 x7.8 cm), inscribed in pencil '36/21, Sep 1921', signed 'HCO'. 2. Small watercolour of a two single begonia flowers (red, pink, yellow centres, on white card (10.9 x 7.9 cm), inscribed in pencil '64/19, Sep 1919. 3. Watercolour of two begonia sprigs, showing flowers, leaves and buds, pink double and red with yellow centres, on white card (26.3 x 17.8 cm), inscribed in pencil '68/19, Sep 6th 1919', signed 'HCO' by each flower. 4. Not Osterstock: watercolour [?] on white card (28.9 x 23.3 cm) of two begonia sprigs, orange red, inscribed '404/6' and signed 'C B B', possibly Caroline Beatrice Bateson (wife of William Bateson). Tissue paper covering has 'W Bateson's wife' in pencil, crossed out. No date, c 1919-21.
7 black & white photographs of brussel sprout stalks and kale leaves
5 black & white photographs of cabbage root clumps: 'Sponge Kale' and 'Cabbage Offenham'
Chionoscilla [?]: I x neg strip b & w, no date.
1 x neg strip b & w, no date
Daboecia, Digitalis, Erythronium, Eschschololtzia, Euphorbia, Flax, Fritillaria, Fushia, Gallardia, Godetia, Gloxinia, Hemerocallis, Hydrangea, Iris, Leycesteria, Lonicera, Lychnis, Magnolia, Myosotis, Naegelia, Nemophile, Nicotiana, Oenothera, Pelargonium, Petunia, Phlox, Plantago, Potato, Primula.
1 sepia photograph of stems and flowers, annotated 'mosaic from Kew'.
Black & white photograph of flowers, back reads 'Erythronium, White Beauty', no date.