Here we have the spider sitting in the middle of their web. The information they need, or the fly, if you prefer, is waiting, and there are many ways to reach it. It is, however, no use waiting for the fly to come to them.
This is a good analogy for research, and for networking, for sometimes you have to travel down a lot of threads before you find the juicy morsel that is the next link in the chain.
This set is first described in our original Wills reference booklet part III, RB.14, published in 1949. In actual fact it was Parts I and II revised, and part III. It is catalogued as :
69. 50. GARDEN LIFE. Fronts lithographed in colour; backs in grey with descriptive back. Home issue, 1914. Similar series issued by Edwards, Ringer & Bigg and Lambert & Butler (both sets of 25).
We featured the Lambert & Butler version, which was issued in April 1930, as our Card of the Day for the 8th of June, 2023 - whilst the Edwards, Ringer and Bigg version was circulated even longer after, not until 1934.
In our World Tobacco Issues Indexes the entry reads :
GARDEN LIFE. Sm. Nd. (50). See H.449
That H code takes you to the handbook, where the other issuers of this set are listed.