…hybrids about to open. 1918 – JCW R brunonis is good. Rhodo’s lack rain very badly. 1916 – JCW Mitraria fair. R brunosis good. R Mrs J.C Williams is nice…

…about their best. Very very dry, several things dead. 1909 – JCW Buddleia variabilis shows colour. Mitraria fair. Cyclamen none. Half the daff seed sown. Most of the transplanting finished….

…yet. 1911 – JCW A good few cyclamen are up. Buddleias are going back. Mitraria suffered badly in the long spell of dry weather, some lapagerias show, roses coming again….

…flowers good yet. 1910 – JCW The buddleias are just starting. Mitraria are good. Ferns by the mitrarias good. Honeysuckles good, not much else, an odd lapageria and so cyclamen….

…just over, it is very late for some things. 1910 – JCW L giganteum nearly over. Brunonis over, R coulteri fair. Mitraria good. R cinnabarinum going back. Buddleias show colour….

…best shrub now. 1912 – JCW Both buddleias are open and quite nice. 1909 – JCW Returned from Scotland, R brunonis very fine. Mitraria nice. No cyclamen. No buddleia’s. R…

…No R ingersii open. R fortunei Wilson wanes, P poissonii good. Mitraria good. L giganteums nice. Papa Gontier good. 1901 – JCW Romneya just starting five or six flowers. I…

…Plagianthus lyalii did half the D and L’s. Yesterday, not really open. Buddleias have hardly opened. R r remains poor, too damp. Mitraria fair. Very little in the hard wood…

…ago. Harrow hybrids would be fine but the heat ruins them. 1923 – JCW R coulteri has had a few flowers only. Brunonis and Mitraria are nice. The Plagianthus are…

…pteroclada coming on. Escallonia langleyense good. Mitraria fair. R moyesii goes back. 1901 – JCW Returned after a months absence much as on the other side, only later, a fair…