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As a result of tests conducted for a number of years, lists are given of varie- 

 ties of fruits and vegetables recommended for culture, together with the results 

 secured with indoor tomatoes during the past season. 



Garden notes, 1910, E. R. Bennett (Colorado Sta. Bui. 172, pp. 3-16, figs. 

 3). — During the season of 1910 a number of annual truck croiJS adapted to 

 Colorado conditions were grown in the station gardens. Notes are herein given 

 relative to the behavior of the different vegetables grown and their adapta- 

 bility to Colorado conditions. 



Considerable trouble has been experienced in the reversion of selected cab- 

 bage seed to original types. From breeding experiments conducted by the 

 station in 190S-9 the possibility of procuring certain plants with fixed char- 

 acteristics, in accordance with Mendel's law, was indicated. 



Production of a white bean lacking- the factor for total pigmentation — a 

 prophecy fulfilled, R. A. Emerson (Amcr. Breeders' Assoc. [I'roc], 6 ( 1!)0!I), 

 pp. 396, 391). — In continuation of his studies relative to the inheritance of 

 color in the seeds of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgai-is) (E. S. R., 22, 

 p. 40), the author has been successful in producing a white bean without the 

 total pigmentation factor. The results are briefly discussed. 



Cultural experiments with cabbage in 1910, Hubeb et al. (Mitt. Deut. 

 Landw. Oescll., 26 {1911), Nos. 2-',, pp. 31.'f-317; 25, pp. .7//.9-353).— Tabular 

 results are given of cooperative varietj^ and cultural tests of cabbage conducted 

 under the direction of the German Agricultural Society in 1910. 



The manurial constituents taken from the soil by an average crop of 

 cauliflower, R. Harcourt (Ann. Rpt. Ontario Agr. Col. and Expt. Farm, 36 

 {1910), pp. 102, 103). — The analytic results and conclusions are given of a 

 study of the above subject made by J. F. Harries. 



Figuring on a yield of 5 tons of heads per acre, the total fertilizing ingredi- 

 ents in the heads, leaves, and roots were phosphoric acid 3G.5 lbs. potash 88.3 

 lbs., nitrogen 116.5 lbs., and lime 94.3 lbs. The heads, which are generally the 

 only part removed from the soil, contained phosphoric acid 10.2 lbs., potash 

 24.5 lbs., nitrogen 33.9 lbs., and lime G.7 lbs. These figures as compared with 

 figures for various crops given by Hopkins (E. S. R., 23, p. 17) indicate that 

 cauliflower is a relatively light feeder. 



The cultivation, production, preparation, and utilization of castor seed 

 (Bui. Imp. Inst. [So. Kensington^, 9 (1911), No. 1, pp. 17-35).— A general 

 account including information relative to experimental plantings made in 

 British territory. 



Experiments on the storage of onions {Agr. News [Barbados], 10 (1911), 

 No. 238, p. 191). — The results are given of certain experiments on the storage 

 of onions, conducted during 1910 at the Antigua Experiment Station with a 

 view of finding some means of carrying the local crop over periods of the year 

 when onions are not in season, and for the purpose of furnishing large bulbs 

 for planting the local crop, it being necessary at present to raise the crop from 

 sets. Twelve onions were used in each test. One lot was dusted with slaked 

 lime, another with flowers of sulphur, and others were treated with carbon 

 rtioxid gas, Bordeaux mixture, 1 : 1,000 corrosive sublimate solution, and sulphur 

 dioxid gas, respectively. The onions were stored in a well-ventilated room 

 and examined at different intervals from April to October, inclusive. None of 

 these methods of treatment materially affected the rate of decay of the bulbs, 

 although the flowers of sulphur seemed to have some slight beneficial action. 



No advantage was gained by stringing the onions together. 



Observations on the blossoming of our hardy cultivated fruits, C. H. 

 Hooper (Jour. Roy. Hort. 8oc. [London], 36 (1911), No. 3, pp. 548-56fi, pis. 

 3). — Comparative data, collected at Wye, Kent, are given showing the average 



