…I crossed the old Camellia speciosa on about 20 or 30 flowers with the pollen of Camellia salicifolia. 1932 – JCW Magnolia sargentiana is half of it open, but is…

…Glorious, in the K Garden. Eucryphia cordifolia very good. White rhodo’s auriculatum etc mostly over. Magnolia delavayi good and both var of Grandiflora. Quite a lot of Mag salicifolia have…

…open but not all, a bad flowering year for them. The early Kobus – soulangeana – conspicua one plant. Salicifolia shows colour. Denudata nearly all out. Madame de Graaf is…

…thing, snowdrops showing since Christmas. 1920 – JCW Just as the above but less of excepting for the Hamamelis which is better. Cotoneaster salicifolia is nice and Bob’s heath is…

…CW One Magnolia sargentiana 1/3 flowers out, one Mag mollicomata has flowers now, Mag salicifolia in 40 Acres almost at its best. Magnolia denudata showing colour. Blood Reds in 40…

…2 Robusta as well as Diva and one flower out on Dauroniana. Some on one Salicifolia. Several Prunus out. Rho argenteum at its best and Rookery Blood Red Arboreum also…

…very good. C coums are nice, Cotoneaster salicifolia good. Many early Rhodos are far enough on to pick buds off them including R argenteum. 1908 – JCW Snowdrops and Aconites…

…Viburnum fragrans, Magnolia salicifolia, Quercus spicata, Quercus glabra, Farrers Oak, Nothofagus dombeyi, Betula albo sinensis of Wilson, one cherry not the true Pilosiuscula. 1922 – JCW In advance of 1918….

…tree down below 4 in Hand. The east wind lasted about 10 days. Ripped leaves off the Giganteums. 1928 – JCW Magnolias kobus, salicifolia, halleana, conspicua, brozzoni, soulangeana and denudata…

…is Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ and Magnolia salicifolia. Pink in bud opening white. Not sure that I have seen this one out before. Quite nice and a good shaped…