A Quarterly Review of News and Views Issued By the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey

Abstract

Commercial growers with an export trade in propagating material reduce their packing methods to a fine art to minimize risk of loss. However, scientists who may only occasionally send material abroad often omit to take a few elementary precautions and consequently the material, which is likely to be extremely valuable, may be dead before it arrives. We claim no great experience in sending; but, at the receiving end, our experience extends from material arriving in perfect condition to plants that have liquified en route. Deductions made from these observations may be helpful.