Descriptions of fruit of peach varieties. Also seedlings 115-729, H9625-H202010, K79-72-K79-211. Information includes susceptibility to disease etc.
Descriptions of fruit: peach seedlings 13-554 (reverse order), including section drawings.
Plot lists of pear seedlings, not scored.
Plot lists of plum seedlings (nos. 4790-6390), scored for colour, fruit quality
Plot lists of peach seedlings, scored for flower type, disease susceptibility.
Files on fruit breeding (apple, pear, cherry, rhubarb, tomato, pear-apple hybrid), flower breeding (freesia, streptocarpus, lathyrus), papers and publications (including unpublished book Plant Breeding for Amateurs), conferences attended, membership of committees, lists of species collections at JI, John Innes Society, and miscellanea re JII. Subject-organised correspondence, notes, drafts of papers. AGB 1/4/1-12 Correspondence AGB 1/4/13 -33 Apple: general AGB 1/4/34-44 Apple: scab and mildew AGB 1/4/45-54 Pear AGB 1/4/55-63 Other fruit AGB 1/4/64-68 Fruit: General AGB 1/4/69-73 Fruit: miscellaneous (mostly apple, pear) AGB 1/4/74-101 Flower Breeding and Genetics AGB 1/4/102-119 Conference Papers AGB 1/4/120-134 Papers and Publications AGB 1/4/135-138 Involvement with External Bodies AGB 1/4/139-141 Talks, lectures AGB 1/4/142-145 Species Collections AGB 1/4/146-148 John Innes Society AGB 1/4/149-158 JI: General AGB 1/4/159 Reprints AGB 1/4/160-165 Other research and horticultural institutions AGB 1/4/166-177 Miscellaneous
Correspondence with North American researchers re apple scab and mildew programme: exchange of samples, reporting of results. Also apple pigments and related interests; mention of work on peaches (1956).
various topics covering Applied Genetics/ fruit breeding interests.