No. 1, February, 1921] HORTICULTURE 41 



HORTICULTURE 



J. H. GouRLEY, Editor 

 FRUITS AND GENERAL HORTICULTURE 



250. Allen, W. J., and W. C. Gay Brereton. Orchard notes, July. Agric. Gaz. New 

 South Wales 31 : 523-525. 1920. — A discussion of pruning of the apple and pear and its relation 

 to the production of fruit buds. — L. R. Waldron. 



251. Allen, W. J., and W. C. Gay Brereton. Thompson's Improved and Navalencia 

 oranges. Agric. Gaz. New South Wales 31: 519. 1920. 



252. Anonymous. American books on agriculture. [Rev. of : Gould, H. P. Peach grow- 

 ing. (Rural Science Series.) xxi + 426 p., 32 pi. Macmillan Co.: New York, 1918.] Nature 

 104:49&-497. 1920. 



253. Anonymous. American-grown fruit stocks. Nation. Nurseryman 28^:215. 1 fig. 

 1920. — A brief history and description of the growing of fruit stocks in America is given. 

 Practically all the apple seedlings in the United States are raised in the Kaw Valley, Kansas. 

 Efforts to grow them on a large scale in other places have not met with marked success. — 

 J. H. Gourley. 



254. Anonymous. A pear tree trained in an unusual way. Nation. Nurseryman 28': 180. 

 1 fi^. 1920. — A description is given of a pear tree trained in the form of a table. It is grow- 

 ing on the grounds of Bobbink and Atkins Nurseries, Rutherford, New Jersey. — J. H. 

 Gourley. 



255. Anonymous. La multiplicacion de las plantas. [The propagation of plants.] [Rev. of 

 Calvino, Mario. Tratado sobre la multiplicacion de la? plantas. 264 p. 244 photographs. 

 Graphical Arts Press: Habana, 1920.] Rev. Agric. Com. y Trab. [Cuba] 3: 149-151. 1 fi^. 

 1920.— The table of contents of the book is included in the review.— F. M. Blodgett. 



256. Anonymous. Problems of the fruit grower. [Rev. of: Bedford, Duke of, and 

 Spencer Pickering. Science and fruit growing: being an account of the results obtained at 

 the Woburn experimental farm since its foundations in 1894. xxii + 351 p. Macmillan and 

 Co.: London, 1919.] Nature 104: 558-559. 1920. 



257. Anonymous. Tests with unfruitful plxmi trees. New Zealand Jour. Agric. 20: 9. 

 1920. — Pruning, ring-barking, and root-pruning gave no results. Interpollination was 

 effective. — N. J. Giddings. 



258. Anonymous. The avocado in Trinidad. Agric. News [Barbados] 19:46. 1920.— 

 A review of a paper on the subject by W. G. Freeman in the Bulletin of the Department oj 

 Agriculture, Trinidad, in which the history, process of selection, etc., are discussed. A 

 paper by R. O. Williams on budding the avocado is also reviewed. — J. S. Dash. 



259. Brainerd, Ezra, and A. K. Peitersen. Blackberries of New England.— Their 

 classification. Vermont Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 217. 84 p., 36 pi. 1920. 



260. Campbell, J. A. Natural cool-air fruit storage. New Zealand Jour. Agric. 20: 

 166-167. 1920.— The methods in use in the United States are briefly outlined. It is feared 

 that the same methods could not be used in New Zealand. — A^. J. Giddings. 



^ 261. Campbell, J. A. The fruit industry in North America. New Zealand Jour. Agric. 

 20: 24^27. 1920.— One of a series of articles. This deals with cooperation and standardiza- 

 tion as practiced in the fruit regions of the United States and Canada. — N. J. Giddings. 



