Stuk AW/2/1/4 - Correspondence: Portugal, Yugoslavia, Poland, Russia, Romania, Syria, Spain, Canary Islands, Italy, Greece, France and Turkey

Extent: 1 folder

Correspondence and reports on wheat samples in 8 sections: Portugal: (1928-9) reports of wheat types grown in local areas in Portugal including wheat types Algerian, Precoce and Prodigio, Ideal, Temporao, Alexandre, Reiti and Gentil Rosso, includes a hand drawn map of Portugal showing wheat growing areas. Yugoslavia: Belgrade, Croatia, Dalmatia, Sarajevo: (1928) reports of wheat types grown in local areas in Yugoslavia including Potiska grown near the river Tisa, Spahinska, wheat grown in the Backa region, wheat types Nova Varos, Kriva Palanka, Prilep, Gornje Lisice, Sv. Nikola, Marena Veliko Hoce and Donja Banica, 22 wheat samples from the provinces of Croatia, Slavonia and Srem, chart of wheat grown in Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla, Travnik, Banjaluka and Uzice. Poland, Russia and Romania: (1928-1942) Poland: list of winter wheat; Russia: correspondence with C Flaksberger (U.S.S.S.R Institute of Plant Industry) on hybrids and speltoids, lists of wheat samples; Romania (Varna, Armenia, Turkestan): list of samples and local wheat grown in Bulgaria and Turkestan. Syria (Aleppo), Spain (Mahon, Castellon, Valladolid, Ciudad Real, Navarre, Vizcaya, Leon, Seville, Valencia, Salamanca) and the Canary Islands: (1928-9) Syria: wheat grown in Aleppo giving local name, district, soil type and characteristics; Spain: on samples from Mahon, Castelon, Valladolid, Ciudad Real, Vizcaya, Navarra, Salamanca, Valencia; Canary Islands: wheat grown on the island of Tenerife (includes an annotated postcard of the island). Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, Malta: (1928-1939) correspondence with prof. Enrico Avanzi with his list of Italian wheats, list of 98 samples of Triticum, Malta wheat. Greece: Corfu, Salonica, Crete, Cyprus: (1928) about growing methods and conditions in different parts of Greece, Thessaly, a report on types grown, conditions and yields of wheat in Greece from the Lake Copais Company, reports on samples from districts in the Peloponnesus and the island of Zante, Salonica, Crete and Cyprus. France: (1935) Turkey: Smyrna: (1928-9) samples from districts around Smyrna and report on growing methods, conditions etc. , a postcard from Smyrna showing a man ploughing a field with oxen.