ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN 



THE UNITED STATES. 



California Station, Bulletin No. 89, December 10, 1890 (pp. 4). 



Distribution of seeds and plants, E. J. Wickson, M. A. — A 

 list of the varieties of seeds and plants which the station is prepared to 

 distribute this season to applicants in its own State. Eecipients pay 

 for packing and postage or express, and are exjjected to report results 

 obtained with the seeds and plants sent. 



Colorado Station, Second Annual Report, 1889 (pp. 136). 



Eeport of director, C. L. Ingersoll, M. S. (pp. 3-16). — An out- 

 line of the plan of work in the several divisions of the station in 1889. 



Eeport of agricultural section, A. E. Blount, M. A. (pp. 

 17_21). — As printed, this is a digest by the director of the report sub- 

 mitted by the agriculturist. It relates for the most part to tests for 

 soil variations with corn, wheat, oats, and barley, continued from 1888 

 (See Annual Eeport of the station for 1888, pp. 25-55, and Experiment 

 Station Bulletin No. 2, pp. 28-30). Details are not given. There are 

 also brief references to experiments with Polish wheat or Mammoth rye 

 {Triticum polonicum), and to several species of weeds which are very 

 troublesome in Colorado. 



Eeport of section of botany and horticulture, 0. M. Brosb 

 (pp. 22-45).— Owing to the death of Professor James Cassidy, horticul- 

 turist of the station, the report of this section was prepared by the 

 assistant horticulturist. As printed it mcludes a brief record of the 

 growth of 17 varieties of apples, 6 of pears, 6 of poplars, and 2 of wil- 

 lows ; tabulated notes on 85 varieties of grapes, 31 of strawberries, 7 

 of gooseberries, 6 of currants, 19 of sweet-corn, 47 of peas, 30 of beans, 

 5 of pumpkins, and 10 of squashes, and brief descriptive notes on 12 

 varieties of celery; brief accounts of experiments with potatoes, onions, 

 cabbages, tomatoes, and carrots; a statement of the number of varieties 

 of vegetables grown for seed for distribution ; and brief references to 

 the insects committing injuries in 1889 in the vicinity of the station, con- 

 densed from Bulletin No, of the station (See Experiment Station 

 Becord, Vol. I, p, 10), 

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