…the house but hardly moves much in the New Planting. 1927 – JCW Rather earlier than 1924, not much cold so far. Camellia speciosa and sasanqua show colour. Erica hybrida…

…year old Japanese ones are flowering. Magnolia kobus is very good. Several hybrids are well open i.e nigra, Brozzoni, alba, superba and speciosa etc. Falconeri is just opening. Auklandii is…

…the wind blows again. 1940 – CW First Sutchuenense hybrids out also Arboreum thomsonii x. Camellia sasanqua, double white, speciosa and its light and dark pink hybrids, also Oleifera very…

…are good and so is Cam speciosa. 1929 – JCW 150 flowers on the early Kobus show white. 1926 – JCW Isceuticum, Roxieanum, a new Irroratum and Martinianum all should…

…JCW Sutchuenense a fair lot showing colour, no calophytum yet Camellia speciosa has been and is very good. A very few daff moving. R sulfureum has been and is good….

…showing flower, the Camelia speciosa have been very good, there are some good Lapagerias yet, we have had a Roylei flowering nicely for about six weeks, I picked a Lent…

…speciosa is frosted. Moupinense and Lutescens have shown colour for a month or thereabouts. Have seen one snowdrop. 1926 – JCW Hamamelis mollis is very fine indeed otherwise just as…

…daffodils + 1 flower Mag Mr Gove + Busaco magnificent brought in. 1932 – JCW Camellia speciosa at about its best in all forms, some may touch April. 1929 –…