Folder containing articles primarily by R W Sidwell for The Evesham Journal, stuck on sheets of scrap paper. The articles are mainly in the Old Cottage Garden Flowers (1974-1975) and Best Gardens (1974) series. Old Cottage Garden Flowers: (i) A variety of perfumes; (ii) The hellebores; (iii) The other gilloflowers; (iv) Monkshood, the poisonous beauty; (v) Old cottage garden flowers; (vi) The double red paeony; (vii) Edging of knots; (viii) The gladiolus; (ix) Bears' Ears; (x) This is the original naked lady; (xi) Chrysanthemums; (xii) The Amaranths; (xiii) A selection of common annuals; (xiv) Buttercups and daisies; (xv) Gilloflowers; (xvi) The flower of the Madonna; (xvii) A quartet of laurels; (xviii) The hyacinths; (xix) The daffodils; (xx) The lobelias. Best Gardens: (xxi) Rousham House; (xxii) Compton Wynyates; (xxiii) Fairlawns, Bishop’s Cleeve; (xxiv) The Priory, Kemerton; (xxv) Wines from garden and hedgerow; (xxvi) Topiary at Packwood House; (xxvii) Kiftsgate Court; (xxviii) Spetchley Park; (xxix) Labour-saving, money-saving; (xxx) Shakespeare gardens; (xxxi) Hidcote, one man’s creation; (xxxii) Upton House; (xxxiii) Orchard Cottage, Gretton; (xxxiv) Pusey House. Also contains: (xxxv) R W Sidwell’s scheme to regain the lost 1000 acres; (xxxvi) The onion goes to war; (xxxvii) The decimal system in horticulture; (xxxviii) Pollution, the risks in horticulture; (xxxix) Looking back, Market prices over the years, 1897-1966; (xl) A History of Evesham Horticulture, mid-19th century developments and experiments at Evesham; (xli) Changing fashion in vegetables; (xlii) Looking back, Market prices of the century, 1914-1973. It also contains: (xliii) Let me tell you a tale of the Wild Service Tree by Eric James; (xliv) The City of Change … from Coventry Evening Telegraph, 24th March 1973.