30th July

…on plants very marked. 1929 – JCW Hybrids of Ungernii, Decorum and Discolor x Auriculatum are very good, Rosa Brunonis and American Pillar are very and so is the Romneya….

27th July

…JCW Buddleias fair, Romneyas too. also R ungernii. Daff moving in arrears from want of labour and too much rain. Plagianthus are just over. 1916 – JCW Buddleias goodish. Romneya

26th July

…1919 – JCW The Plagianthus goes back, the R ungernii would be good but for the lack of rain. Buddleias very nice. Fortuneis over. Cyclamen have started. Romneya nice. 1915…

15th July

…are going over. The Romneya is coming on. 1918 – JCW Plagianthus lyalii is very good indeed. There is very little else, and a fine lot of rain after a…

22nd November

…1918 – JCW C sasanqua is very good indeed. 1897 – JCW A Camellia has several flowers open, Romneya coulteri has flowers on it, another of Engelhart’s seedlings above ground….

22nd July

…for some time, the Romneya, Buddleia, Plagianthus and D Ivey Escallonia are the best things for the show at Tregony. 1907 – JCW L giganteum over. R brunonis at its…

4th July

…JCW Fortunei Wilson discolor mayerianum would be nice but for the sun and so cross am – maddeni. Papa Goultier, Romneya x American Pillar very good. Brunonis nice. 1912 –…

18th November

…– JCW I picked a Camellia sasanqua, several were open. A Romneya coulteri open, and several fair roses. I see 131 has come through, seedlings with maximus blood are showing….

18th July

…us all for decades. 1921 – JCW Perhaps there are 500 flowers on the Romneya coulteri. There is not much else. It is very hot and dry and is about…

12th August

…of Wilson’s Hydrangeas are good, very little else. The 1917 winer killed the gladiolus. 1916 – JCW Romneya very good indeed, hundreds of flowers out, nothing much else in the…