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The tabulated results show an increased yield with green cotton seed 

 over the unfertilized plats, amounting to 156.5 pounds of liut cotton on 

 the undrained land, and 40.5 pounds on the drained land. The former 

 " paid for the cost of the seed and its application." The increase with 

 cotton-seed meal ''did not pay." The yields where pea vines and meli- 

 lotus had been plowed under were among the highest, the yield with 

 melilotus being 11.5 pounds of lint cotton in excess of that with peas. 

 With the stable manure and sawdust the yield was below the average. 



Varieties of cotton. — Tabulated notes on 13 varieties of cotton. 



California Station, Bulletin No. 91, February 28, 1891 (pp. 6). 



Port and sherry grapes in California, E. W. Hilgard, 

 Ph. D. (pp. 1-4).— Brief descriptiv^e notes on 6 port-wine varieties and 

 9 sherry and Madeira varieties grown in California. 



Importation of Italian grapes, E. W. Hilgard, Ph. D. (pp. 4, 

 5). — "'The importations of European grapes into California have thus 

 far included but a few of the varieties grown in Italy ; France, Germany, 

 and to some extent Spain, being the countries most largely represented 

 in our vineyards." There are, however, large portions of the State 

 where more Southern varieties of grapes would naturally produce bet- 

 ter results. Investigations by the station, which are to be published in 

 detail, have indicated that Italian varieties of grapes might profitably 

 be introduced. With a view to experiments in this line the station has 

 imported " cuttings of 48 varieties of wine and table grapes from the 

 collection of Count Giuseppe Eovasenda, the distinguished ampelogra- 

 pher of Italy, residing at Turin, with whom correspondence has been 

 carried on for some time past by Assistant Paparelli. We are thus 

 placed in possession of an authentically named collection, which will 

 be partly rooted, and partly grafted for more rapid propagation and 

 future distribution." 



Importation of olives, E. W. Hilgard, Ph. D. (pp. 5, 6).— Brief 

 descriptive notes on 8 varieties recently "imported from the highly 

 reputed nursery of R. Pecori of Florence, under the auspices of Professor 

 E. Bechi, the director of the agricultural station at Florence. * » # 

 These trees are now growing finely on the grounds of the station at 

 Berkeley and will be propagated as rapidly as possible for distribution 

 to the substations, and thereafter to olive culturists at various points 

 within the State." 



California Station, Bulletin No. 92, March 28, 1891 (pp. 4). 



XoTES ON California olives, L. Paparelli. — An account of 

 observations and experiments recently made by the author on a number 

 of varieties of olives grown in California. The article incluaes tabu- 

 lated and descriptive notes on the time of ripening, productiveness, 



