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361. Anonymous. Largest and best equipped walnut packing house. Amer. Nut Jour. 

 13:73. 1920.— The La Puente Valley Walnut Growers Association has established at La 

 Puente, California, a walnut packing house three times as large as any other, and it has all 

 modern facilities for grading, cleaning, and packing. — E. L. Overholser. 



3G2. Anonymous. Metodos de transplantar coqueiros. [Methods of transplanting coco- 

 nuts.] Bol. Agric. Nova Goa [Portuguese East India] 1:95-97. 1919. Popular.— J. A. 

 Stevenson. 



363. Anonymous. One hundred million native pecan trees. Amer. Nut Jour. 12:55. 

 1920. — Burbank's statement is quoted in which the possibilities of pecan culture in the south, 

 especially in Texas, are emphasized. Pecan trees make a prolific growth in western Texas 

 and come into bearing the 1st or 2nd year after transplanting. — E. L. Overholser. 



364. Anonymous. The pruning and care of young apple trees. Better Fruit 15^:3-4. 

 1920. — Specific detailed directions are given for pruning from the time of planting to the 

 bearing age. The protection of young trees from windstorms, snow, and ice is discussed. — 

 A. E. Murneek. 



365. Anonymous. Spanish chestnuts. Cyprus Agric. Jour. 14, 15: 146-148. 1919, 1920. 

 —The Agricultural Department of Cyprus since 1900 has distributed several thousand Spanish 

 chestnuts free of charge to villagers in the hills. It has been found that most of the trees 

 begin fruiting in the 4th year. A large well-grown tree is claimed to yield in a season fruit 

 worth as much as £5. — W. Stuart. 



366. Anonymous. Wolford pecan. Amer. Nut Jour. 12 : 44. 1920.— Propagation of this 

 variety in localities other than McKinney, Texas, where it originated is recommended. The 

 yield, very good quality, and excellent cracking quality compensate to a considerable extent 

 for the medium, or slightly below medium, sized nuts and the fact that the tree is a rather 

 slender grower. — E. L. Overholser. 



367. Anonymous. [Rev. of: Fletcher, S. W. Strawberry growing. Rural Science 

 Series, xxii + 325 -p. New York: The Macmillan Company: New York, 1917.] Sci. Prog. 

 [London] 14:510. 1920. 



368. Barker, B. T. P. A survey of west of England farm orchards. Ann. Rept. Agric. 

 and Hort. Res. Sta. Univ. Bristol 1919:110-121. 1919.— Results are given of a study of 

 orchard conditions in the Counties of Devon, Gloucester, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Worcester. 

 —W. H. Chandler. 



369. Barker, B. T. P., and A. H. Lees. Factors governing fruit-bud formation. II. 

 The normal annual growth of the apple and pear. Ann. Rept. Agric. and Hort. Res. Sta. Univ. 

 Bristol 1919: 85-92. 1919. — Results are given of observations and experimentation concern- 

 ing the growth of the different buds on a twig. On a Vicar of Wakefield pear, buds had 

 pushed out enough to be measured by March 14. Up to April 12 there was little difference 

 in the amount of growth from the different buds, but after that time the terminal buds gained 

 precedence. The author's results suggest that this difference among the buds is partially 

 explained, but not entirely so, by the work of Loeb, according to which growth of the apical 

 bud depresses the growth of buds back of it, either by the use of the available nutrients 

 or by the formation of a substance that, moving backward, inhibits growth at the other buds. 

 By examining the buds in winter and the same ones again when growth had started it was 

 found that weak dormant buds produce weak growth in spring. The authors think that 

 the growth of a bud is influenced by (a) temperature, (b) inhibition effect suggested by Loeb, 

 (c) bud strength, (d) root action, (e) variety influence.— PF. H. Chandler. 



370. Barker, B. T. P., and A. H. Lees. Factors governing fruit-bud formation. III. 

 The effect of notching and ringing on apple trees. Ann. Rept. Agric. and Hort. Res. Sta. 



