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THE John Innes Horticultural Institution is perhaps best known in the scientific world for its great part in genetical work, under its three successive directors, Bateson, Hall and Darlington. While its contributions to science in the field of cytogenetics have been so outstanding, sight must not be lost of the more directly horticultural research in the applied sphere which has steadily progressed at the Institution and which has resulted in advances of knowledge no whit less important. Throughout, the work has been a model of what applied research should be, the scientific approach to the problems of the practical grower. The work of M. B. Crane on compatibility and incompatibility in fruits illustrates this conception of applied research in a striking manner ; not only does it constitute an outstanding advance in scientific knowledge, but also it is the foundation of all modern systems of orchard planning. His "Fertility Rules in Fruit Planning" (Leaflet No. 4 of the new collected edition of the John Innes Leaflets*) is the vade mecum of all growers laying out new plantations.
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STOUGHTON, R. The John Innes Horticultural Institution. Nature 162, 791 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162791a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162791a0