IV CONTENTS. 



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A Louisiana plant breeder, Norman 146 



The wild apricot or wild peach 146 



The dried banana, Ammann 146 



Statistics on the German fruit industry 146 



Fertilizer experiments with cacao, Strunk 146 



The grape trellis, Munson 146 



How to make a fruit garden, Fletcher : 146 



Common-sense gardens, Sewell - 146 



Carnations, picotees, and pinks, Weguelin 146 



FORESTEY. 



Rate of growth and yield of forests in Vasterbotten County, Sweden, Beronius. 147 



Observations on afforesting moor lands, Liechti 147 



Deforestation in China, Willis 147 



Growing locust in Hungaria, Gaskill _. 147 



Rocky Mountain seedling growth, Blumer 147 



Germination periods of some conifers, Zederbauer 147 



Germination tests and valuation of pine seeds, Haack 147 



Life history of Pinus sylvestris, Borthwick 148 



Ficiis elastica, its natural growth and artificial propagation, Coventry 148 



Science of Para rubber cultivation, Wright 148 



Compilation of notes on India rubber and gutta-percha, Ahern 148 



Experiments with rubber-yielding plants in Dominica, Jones 148 



Rubber experiments in St. Lucia, Moore 148 



What are the essentials of a State fire law? Sterling 148 



The creosoting of home-grown timber, Havelock 148 



Big returns from growing trees. Burns 149 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



New and little-known plant diseases in Nebraska, Heald 149 



Report of the consulting botanist, Carruthers 149 



The rusts of Australia, McAlpine 149 



Infection of ])lants liy rust fungi, Balls 149 



Smut in wheat, barley, and oats, and how to prevent it, Evans 150 



Smut treatment, Mackay 150 



Preventives of smut in wheat, Bedford 1 50 



Notes on brusone, Brizi 1 50 



Stages of development reached by Erysiphe in cases of noninfection, Salmon . 151 



A fungus disease of alfalfa in England, Salmon 151 



Potato scurf and potato scab, Glissow 151 



Bacterial wilt of tobacco, Uyeda 151 



Tomatoes and their diseases, Froggatt 152 



The parasitism of Neocosmospora, Reed 152 



Some fungus diseases and their treatment, Floyd 152 



Pear blight work and its control in California, Waite and Smith 152 



Investigations on grape anthracnose, Viala and Pacottet 152 



Hints on the treatment of grape mildew, Degrully 153 



Experiments for control of mildew in 1905, Chuard, Faes, and Porchet 153 



Smut of cultivated bamboo, Hori 153 



Wilt disease of pigeon pea and pepper, Butler 1 54 



Tree root rot 154 



A canker of the yellow birch, Pollock 154 



The Novar system of combating larch disease 155 



Variation and possible parasitism of Ganoderman sessile, Pollock 155 



Bud rot of carnations, Heald 155 



A disease of narcissus, Chittenden 155 



A species of Hormodendron on Araucaria, Pollock 156 



Directions for making Bordeaux powder. Bird 156 



Bordeaux mixture, Gandara 156 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



Directions for destroying pocket gophers, Lantz 156 



Directions for preparing specimens of large mammals in the field, Merriam 156 



Importation of snakes into Hawaii, Wilson 157 



