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71. Toole, Wm., Sb. Plant improvement by selection. Minn Sortie. 46: 368 372. 

 Oct., 1918.-- Number of examples cited of aew or improved lowers and vegetables obtained by 

 selection. Method advocated is selection oi o< ipproacning ideal tj rate culture of 

 progeny of each individual and discard of populations containing fewest desirable plants. 

 Improvements in certain native 9 owers suggested. E. L. Proebeting. 



72. Van deb Lee, H. A. A. [Rev. of : Bttbkholdeb, W. H. The production of an an hrac- 

 nose-resistant White Marrow bean. Phytopath. 8: 353 359. 1918. (See also Bot. Ab 



1, Entry 293.)] Genetica 1:153-156. Mar., 1919. 



73. Va\ deb Lee, H. A. A. [Rev. of: Molz, E. Ueber die Ziichtung widerstandsfahiger 

 Sorten unserer Kulturpflanzen. (On the breeding of resistant varieties of our cultivated plants) . 

 Zcitschr. Pflanzenziicht. 5:121-124. Fig. 17-22, 1917.] Genetica 1: 192-202. Mar., 1919. 



74. Van Fleet, W. New everbearing strawberries. Jour. Heredity 10: 14-16. Fig. 7- 

 8. Jan., 1919. — Author mentions popularity of everbearing berries and gives brief descrip- 

 tion of investigations to improve quality and runner production of present sorts. All are de- 

 scendants of Pan American, sport of Bismark, Fragaria virginiana. Mexican and European 

 Alpine forms, F. vesca, are everbearing but inferior. — Seed importations of F. vesca from Mex- 

 ico in 1914, tried at Rockville, Maryland, and Chico, California, gave certain hardy everbear- 

 ing plants which produced vigorous runners. Berries were small, well flavored, of little com- 

 mercial value. Crosses with these and certain commercial spring-bearing sorts gave 400 

 plants of high merit though none were everbearing. Cross between these seedlings and 33,005 

 gave 150 seedlings of which 4 were everbearing, bore handsome, large berries equal to best 

 commercial everbearing sorts and produced vigorous runners. — [See Bot. Absts, 2, Entry 

 732.]— J. //. Beaumont. 



75. Van Fleet, W. New pillar rose. Jour. Heredity 10:136-138. Fig. 18-19. Mar., 

 1919.— See Bot. Absts. 3, Entry 1042. 



76. Warbtjrton, C. W. The occurrence of dwarfness in oats. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 

 11: 72-76. Fig. 1-2. 1919.— See Bot. Absts. 3, Entry 176. 



77. Woods, Frederick Adams. Good qualities are correlated. Jour. Heredity 10:84- 

 86. Feb., 1919.— See Bot. Absts. 3, Entry 1047. 



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78. Chaney, A. W. Advertising and control of distribution. Proc. Ann. Meet. Amer. 

 Cranberry Growers' Assoc. 49: 21-26. PI. 1. 1919. — This is an address by the General Man- 

 ager of the American Cranberry Exchange concerning the efforts of the Exchange in market- 

 ing the crops of the three cranberry growing states. Prices have varied from S2.50 to $25 per 

 barrel during the period 1906-1919. The efforts of the Exchange in distributing and advertis- 

 ing the crop have brought to the growers a gain of about one million dollars. — -/. K. Shaw. 



79. Conradi, A. F., and H. W. Barre. Orchard spraying. South Carolina Agric. Exp. 

 Sta. Ext. Circ. 17. 8 'p. 1919. 



80. Daniel, Ltjcien. Cultures maraicheres experimentales au bord de la mer. Mar- 

 ket gardening experiments on the sea coast]. Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 168: 116-118. 

 1919. — Experiments were carried out to determine methods of conserving the water in the 

 sandy soils of dunes along the sea coast. Lettuce, chicory and certain other similar plants 

 were grown (a) under natural conditions, (b) using buried Sphagnum tohold the water, and (c) 

 using well rotted cow manure buried in the same way a-- the Sphagnum. It was found that 



