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THE National Institute of Agricultural Botany has just published its sixteenth report, which records the services provided in 1935 by the Crop Improvement Branch and the Official Seed Testing Station at Cambridge and the Potato Testing Station at Orms-kirk. A small quantity of the new variety of wheat ‘Holdfast’ was marketed during 1935. This wheat was bred from a cross between ‘Yeoman’ and ‘White Fife’, has a white chaff and white grain and shows a marked resistance to ‘lodging’. It is particularly well fitted for growing on good land in high condition. The number of samples tested by the Official Seed Testing Station was 30,502, the highest on record. The work of the Potato Testing Station was seriously hampered by the abnormal weather conditions, but the usual tests of new varieties for susceptibility to wart disease were carried out, together with a number of yield and quality trials. A Lord Derby Gold Medal was awarded to ‘Gladstone’, a new potato produced by Messrs. McGill and Smith Ltd. The Potato Synonym Committee has also published its findings from the trial plots laid down in 1935, and the list of varieties with their synonyms may be obtained on application. Those interested in farming and wishing to keep in touch with the current work of the Institute, one of the chief objects of which is to supply unbiased information as to germination, variety and productive value of seed, are recommended to join the fellowship of the Institute, particulars of which can be obtained from the Secretary, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.
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National Institute of Agricultural Botany. Nature 137, 610–611 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137610d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137610d0