560 Agricultur, Horticultur, Forstbotanik. 



Colo. in 1896 and was so superior in quality that it was regarded 

 as a new variety and called „Rock}'- Ford". Large shipments are 

 still raade from Rocky Ford and the growing of seed has become 

 an important industry. In 1903 the Colorado Experiment Station 

 began the breeding of canteloups in the hope of securing a strain 

 immune to the fungous disease called „melon rust" or „blight". By 



1906 marked resistance was shown by the selected strains and in 



1907 onl}^ a few scattering plants were attacked in the plots planted 

 to the resistant sort though the disease was prevalent in plots planted 

 with the ordinary kinds. The attempt is being made to breed an 

 early resistant variet}'- by crossing the resistant strain of the Rocky 

 Ford with the Watters, a very early variety. 



The plates show the types of canteloups occuring in the fields 

 as well as the perfect type as to netting and seed cavity. 



W. T. Swingle. 



Burkill, I. H. and R. S. Finlow. On three varieties of Corcho- 

 rus cnpsulnriSj Linn., which are eaten. (Journ. i^siatic Soc. 

 Bengal. p. 633—638. 1907.) and The Race of Jute (The Agricul- 

 tural Ledger W. 6 of 1907 (1908) p. 41 — 137.) 



The authors describe three varieties of Corchorus capsularis under 

 the name of Marua, corylifolia and pyrifolia, which in Northern 

 and Eastern Bengal are eaten as early 'rains' vegetables. The 

 first is the C. Mama of Buchanan-Hamilton, so long obscure. In 

 the second paper they pass in review thirty races of C. capsularis 

 which are grown for the fibre, and five races of C. olitorms. They 

 also give the known distribution, wild, of these two species and 

 conclude with a map showing peculiar unexplained local preferences 

 for red and green-stemmed plants in different parts of Bengal. 



I. H. Burkill. 



Lamothe. L., Lavande et Spie. Varietes. Culture. Engrais. 

 Production, etc. (2® edit. 1908. In-4*^, chez l'auteur, au Grand- 

 Serre (Drome).) 



L'auteur preconise la culture de la Lavande {Lavandula vera 

 DC.) dans les departements de la Drome et des Hautes-Alpes, 

 sur tous les terrains mediocres, les pentes escarpees, Ics champs 

 abandonnes; il donne des renseignements precis sur l'amelioration 

 des baiassieres actuelles, sur la creation de lavanderaies artificielles 

 par plants, eclats ou semis, leur exploitation, la distillation des 

 fleurs, etc. L'essence de lavande la plus estimee est fournie par la 

 Lavande fine, qui est une variete du Lavandula vera, decrite sous 

 le nom de L. delphinensis Jord. et qui croit plus haut que l'espece 

 type. Une autre variete, L. fragrans Jord., ne s'eleve pas au-dessus 

 des basses montagnes; eile s'hybride avec le L. latifolia {L. fra- 

 grans X Idtifolia Chatenier, L. hybrida Reverchon) pour donner la 

 Lavande bätarde, qui fournit une essence de quality mediocre. 



J. Offner. 



A-usgegeben: S4 JNovember 1908. 



Verlag von Gustav Fischer in Jena. 

 Buchdruckerei A. W. Sijthoff in Leiden 



