Fruit Trees & Small Fruits, Laxtons, Bedford
Correspondence to Bateson with papers detailing the working of the scheme. Correspondents include A.D. Hall and F.J. Chittenden.
Email Noel Ellis (JIC) to Barry Robertson about Robiona Ellis hybrids and tree tags. Tree planting list for West Drive Lawn (Merton apples).
Apples: sports for mildew testing; descriptions of Merton apple/ cherry varieties; notes on flavour and keeping qualities of apple 'Mutsee' (1962); table: estimated flesh colour effect of apple varieties as parents; pear varieties producing variegated sports; Gardner & Hatcher (of East Malling): 1 page report 'Regeneration in relation to vegetative vigour and flowering'; table showing effect of rootstock on age at first flowering.
Lists of apple, pear and plum selections 1962. 'Varieties not required in mansion fruit store' 1965. List of seedlings with notes on performance.
Descriptions and copies of photographs of fruit house, Merton, fruit plots Bayfordbury, Merton thornless blackberry, PT Thomas, AG Brown, MB Crane?
Papers, texts of papers given at HEA spring conference held at National College of Agricultural Engineering, Silsoe, Beds.
Also fruit character tables in back, possibly raspberry