Agricultur. — Horticultur. — Forstbotanik. 349 



etc.) of the county of Edinburgh require revision. In the subsequent 

 list (p. 282—308) of plants H. C. Watson's numerais are made use ot 

 for indicating the different counties and in man)' cases special attention 

 is drawn to the absence of plants from counties, in which they will pro- 

 bably be found to occur. F. E. Fritsch. 



d'Albuquerque , T. P. and T. R. Bovell, Seedling and 

 other Canes at Barbados, 1904. (Pamphlet Series 

 No. 32. Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West 

 Indies. 1904. p. 1—73.) 



The results recorded are of experiments with varieties of sugar- 

 canes grown on estates situated in typical localities in the Island. Similar 

 Pamphlets are issued annually and also füll detailed reports. The field 

 characters and the principal agricultural and chemical results are given 

 for each variety. The general conclusions are as follows : The weather 

 was favourable and the crop above the average. B. 208 (B =^ Barbados 

 seedling-cane) gave very favourable returns on red soils and is recom- 

 mended for general trial on a small scale on such soils. 



B. 147 gave returns below those of previous years and is apparently 

 unsuited for general cultivation in the Island. The scaly seedling broke 

 down in the quality of its juice. 



B 1.259, one of the newer seedlings, gave promising results. 



The rainfall at the different estates and the mean results agricul- 

 tural and chemical, are summarized in a series of tables. 



W. G. Freeman. 



Anonymus. The Tobacco of Jamale a. (Bulletin, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Jamaica. Vol II. p. 265 — 274.) 



In Order to test the possibility of producing in Jamaica the expen- 

 sive imported wrapper tobacco experiments have been conducted with 

 Sumatra tobacco under tent cloth on the lines practised in the Con- 

 necticut Valley in America. The results show that a very fine 

 grade of wrapper can be produced in jamaica. It is essential that the 

 conditions should be sufficiently humid to necessitate the leaves taking 

 16 to 20 days to dry, and certain districts in the colony are recommended 

 as possessing this Variation requirement. 



Four estimates^ with füll details are given^ and calculating the 

 woodwork to last for 5 years, new cloth being put on each year, the 

 cost of cultivation and curing in the four cases was respectively_, 2 s 2'/^ d, 

 2 s 0V4 d, 2 s 0^/4 d, and 2 s OV4 d per g". 



Notes are added as to the comparative yield per acre between 

 tobacco grown in the sun and under cloth in United States, Cuba 

 and Sumatra. W. G. Freeman. 



Balfour, Andrew, First Report of the Wellcome Re- 

 search Lab oratories at the Gord on Memorial Col- 

 lege, Khartoum. 83 pp. numerous plates and illustrations. 

 (Department of Education, Sudan Government, 1904.) 



The Research Laboratories of the Gordon College, the equipment 

 of which formed the generous gift of Mr. Henry S. Wellcome to the 

 Sudan government, are intended to serve the following purposes 



1. To promote technical education. 



2. To promote the study, bacteriologically and physiologically of 

 tropical disorders, especially the infective diseases of both man 

 and beast peculiar to the Sudan, and to render assistance to 

 the officers of health and to the clinics of the civil and military 

 Hospitals. 



