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THE availability of research results of a purely horticultural character has been greatly increased by the publication of Horticultural Abstracts by the Imperial Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, East Mailing, Kent. Mr. D. Akenhead, deputy director of the Bureau, has now compiled an index to the first ten volumes, covering the period 1931-40 (Sept. 1941, 160 pp., 25s.). The volume contains a subject index and an alphabetical list of authors ; it is world-wide in scope, and demonstrates the prosecution of an enormous volume of horticultural research during the decade it reviews. Greatest use of the index demands its relation to the journal which it serves, but the research worker can see from the present volume whether any work in his particular line has been reported. Detail is quite adequate for modern needs, for a reference can be found to apple sauce as well as to Bhizopus arrhizus rot of that crop, and to the utilization of waste potatoes, in addition to rubidium absorption in potato disks. The subject index is compiled with the different crop plants as the chief points of interest. The volume certainly achieves its expressed object of making information as available to the English-speaking horticultural worker as possible.
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An Index to Horticultural Research. Nature 149, 19 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149019b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149019b0