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Large volume used for recording plant-breeding experiments. Contains pencil notes: entries in the hands of Bateson and his colleagues. Sketches sometimes accompany the notes. Parts of the book are in the form of a log; other entries list seeds or seedlings received. Foliated '1-158'; not all pages used. An index to the contents is at the front (before the foliated pages begin). 26 letters to Bateson, dated 1913-1925, are pasted into the volume in various places. (4217-4245). Many of the correspondents appear to have sent seeds to Bateson for cultivation. Some further pages of notes, photographs and, occasionally, printed matter are also found pasted in.

Contents of an original envelope inscribed 'Stocks'. At D.174: correspondence to Bateson from E.R. Saunders re plant crossing experiments, 1906-1911; correspondence to Bateson from Sutton & Sons re plant stock trials, 1908. At D.175-D.176: manuscript experimental notes and data, 1919, nd. Mostly by Bateson, some also by E.R. Saunders.

Manuscript draft of a letter by Bateson to [?E. Philip F.] Sutton [of Sutton & Sons], with related newspaper cuttings.

Copies of reports, notes and papers circulated for meetings, with correspondence, relating to a programme of vegetable seed trials. Some papers have been annotated by Bateson.

The correspondence covers various plant-breeding trials and experiments, including those on primula, mangel and calceolarias, and related matters. The correspondents include Arthur W. Sutton and Leonard G. Sutton.

Correspondence with various individuals and organisations re investigations of sugar beets, chiefly the problem of 'bolting'. The correspondents include Sutton & Sons, J. de Vilmorin and K. Tjebbes.

Letter to Bateson from Sutton & Sons re their wallflower crosses; 4pp related manuscript notes, one page only in Bateson's hand.