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and Best, and Maud S; medium— Vr'ido oC the Market, Market Garden, 

 and Dr. McLeau. 



Radishes (j)]). 42, W). — Brief notes on twenty-two varieties. 



Michigan Station, Bulletin No. 58, March 1890 (pp. 13). 



Insecticides, A. J. Cook, M. S. — The methods of preparation and 

 ai)i)lication of the following insecticides are stated, together with illus- 

 trations of their usefulness: The arseuites (Paris green and Loiulon pur- 

 ple), Bordeaux mixture, carbolized plaster, kerosene emulsion, buhacb 

 or California pyrethrum, tobacco decoction, kerosene ointment, carbolic 

 acid emulsion, white hellebore, bisulphide of carbon, and cyanogen 

 (cyanide of potassium). 



Michigan Station, Bulletin No. 59, April, 1890 (pp. 42). 



List of fruits for Michigan, L. R. Taft, M. IS. (pp. 3-26). — 

 In this article are condensed the replies received from a circular of in- 

 quiry- sent by the station to one hundred leading fruit growers in the 

 State, the object being to secure accurate information regarding the va- 

 rieties successfully grown in different localities. In several instances 

 the list returned to the station had been previously discussed and ap- 

 proved by the county horticultural societies. "The returns are classi- 

 fied into five groups, giving fruit lists for Southern, Central, and North- 

 ern Michigan, the Southern and ]S"orthern Lake Shore." Notes on the 

 size, shape, color, quality, and uses of the several varieties are added 

 from the State Horticultural Society's fruit list for 1888. For a more 

 extended list of large fruits grown in Michigan the reader is referred to 

 that publication, and for a list of small fruits, to Bulletin No. 55 of the 

 station. The list and notes in this article are for 80 varieties of apples, 

 14 of pears, 16 of plums, 26 of peaches, 14 of cherries, 11 of grapes, 8 

 of* currants, 4 of gooseberries, 14 of raspberries, 6 of blackberries, and 

 16 of strawberries. 



Apple scab (pp. 27-42). — This includes brief descriptive notes on 

 the fungus of apple scab {Fusicladiinu dendriticum), by B. T. Galloway 

 of this Department, and a report on experiments made in 1889 in the 

 treatment of apple scab in Michigan, by L. R. Taft. The experiments 

 were performed in co operation with the Section of Vegetable Pathol- 

 ogy, of this Department, and the report is reprinted from Bulletin No. 

 11 of that Section (pp. 30-38). A brief summary of these experiments 

 may also be found in the Journal of Mycology for December, 1889. 



Minnesota Station, Bulletin No. 10, March, 1890 (pp. 17). 



Onions on land plowed and unplowed, S. B. Green, B. S 

 (pp. 07-69). — The results of testa in the wet season of 188S and the dry 

 season of 1889 with onions on clayey loam, which was harrowed bat not 



