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budding has been carried on by the writer with tropical fruits at the Lamao Experiment 

 Station, Philippine Islands. Brief directions for the vegetative propagation of 110 tropical 

 and semi-tropical fruits are given. — E. C. Auchter. 



1005. White, E. W. Report of Assistant Horticulturist and Inspector of fruit pests, 

 Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland districts. British Columbia 14th Ann. Rept. Dept. 

 Agric. 1919: 15-19. 1920. 



1006. White, E. W. The prospects in strawberries. Agric. Jour. [British Columbia] 

 4:178-179. 1919. 



1007. White, E. W. The queen of fruits. Agric. Jour. [British Columbia] 4: 47. 1919. — 

 A popular article on strawberry growing in British Columbia. — J. W. Eastham. 



1008. Whitten, J. C. The relation of experiment station work to practical fruit growing. 

 Monthly Bull. California State Commission Hortic. 8 : 421-423. 1919.— The detail study of the 

 fruit tree, its structure, composition and nutrition, and the influence of heat, cold, etc., has 

 revealed the fruit tree as a living, plastic, shapable thing, which has a very sensitive response, 

 to the various stimuli of its environment. The revelation has completely revolutionized 

 the old systems of pruning.—^. L. Overholser. 



1009. Yeager, A. F. Horticulture. North Dakota Agric. Coll. Ext. Circ. 40:13-16. 

 1920.— Discusses trees, shrubs, fruits, and vegetables for the state. — L. R. Waldron. 



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1010. Anonymous. Alpine plants for rock-gardens. [Rev. of: Farrer, R. The Eng- 

 lish rock-garden. Vol. 1. XIV + 504 p., 52 pi. Vol. 2. VIII + 554 p., 50 pi. T. C. and 

 E. C. Jack: London and Edinburgh, 1919.] Nature 104:664-666. 1 fig. 1920.— Reviewer 

 finds it "a real compendium of sound information and learning, though unduly biased in 

 certain respects" and burdened with superfluous language. — 0. A. Stevens. 



1011. Anonymous. Aquarium exhibit. Missouri Bot. Card. Bull. 7:63-67. 1919. — A. 

 list of thirty plants suitable for aquaria. — O. T. Wilson. 



1012. Anonymous. Native plants suitable for the gardens of Missouri and adjoining states. 

 Missouri Bot. Card. Bull. 8:35-46, 52-59, 63-67, 69-77, 85-94, 104-110. 1920.— Shrubs and 

 other plants are listed as follows : plants suitable for rock gardens; hardy native plants for the 

 water garden and native vines and climbing plants ; native trees and shrubs with conspicuous 

 flowers ; native perennials for the hardy border ; native perennials for natural and wild gardens, 

 and hardy native ferns and plant.s of similar culture; native shrubs for mass planting (flowers 

 inconspicuous); native trees and shrubs with brightly colored foliage in autumn and con- 

 spicuous fruit and bark in autumn and winter, and native evergreen trees and shrubs. — 

 O. T. Wilson. 



1013. Anonymous. Commercial mushroom cultivation. Jour. Ministry Agric. Great 

 Britain 27: 678-680. 1920. 



1014. Balfour, F. R. S. Rhododendron at Dawyck Stobo, Tweed-Dale. Rhododen- 

 dron Soc. Notes 1 : 223-224. 1920.— The hardiness of many species is recorded.— AZ/red 

 Rehdei-. 



1015. Balfour, I. Bailey. Some large leaved Rhododendrons. Rhododendron Soc, 

 Notes 1 : 204-222. 1920. 



1016. Bean, W. J. The Fortunei group of Rhododendrons. Rhododendron Soc. Notes 1 : 

 187-194. 1919. 



