Correspondence with research institutes in France, Switzerland, USA, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Cyprus, Netherlands and elsewhere, re exchange of scions (mostly apple/ pear, also peach, rhubarb)
Subjects include tomatoes; ms of Spangelo & Watkins paper on apple breeding for 1967 World Exhibition, Montreal; AG Brown's membership of Herts. County Council Horticultural Sub Committee (minutes etc.). Correspondence re award of Jones Bateman cup 1961 and MBE, 1971. Pear Apple hybrid: photocopy presscuttings 1954. Short report by AG Brown for RHS Journal [vol. 96, 1971] on new JI variety Columnea 'Fire Dragon'.
Score sheets, graphs, notes from literature on anthocyanins in apple wood, pears. Drawings showing pigmented cells in skin of various apple varieties; test results - levels of anthocyanin in apple and pear wood.
Notes, mostly on occurrence of pale green lethal mutation in apples.
Annotated with reader's comments
Score tables for infection of JI seedlings and rootstocks, with abstracts and notes from literature. Also 2 pp notes on % sugar/ picking date for apple varieties.