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The I X L variety has yioldt'd hut one fair crop, thon^h the trees are 17 years 

 old. When planted in alternate rows with Dralve Seedling or Texas Prolific, 

 they have borne <]uite regularly and heavily. Both the Drake and Texas Pro- 

 lific bear regularly and well. When Nonpareils were planted in alternate rows 

 with I X L the results have been unsatisfactory. The Texas seems to be a 

 much better pollenizer for the Nonpareil than any other variety. At pi-esent 

 all I X L trees are being worked over to Texas Prolific, and the author states 

 that if planting out a young orchard he would plant Nonpareils and Texas Pro- 

 lific in alternate rows, or Drake Seedling and Texas Prolific in the same manner. 



Progress in drug-plant cultivation, R. H. True {U. S. Dci>t. Agr. Yearhooh 

 1905, pp. ').!J-.')'iO, /)ls. 3). — Popular descriptions and cultural directions are given 

 for the growing of Golden Seal, Cascara Sagrada, Seneca snakeroot, purple corn- 

 flower, American worniseed, jimson weed, poke, burdock and yellow dock, 

 Asiatic poppy, foxglove, and peppers as drugs. The demand for each of these 

 is x'ather limited, and it is recommended that prospective growers in the begin- 

 ning cultivate only small areas. 



Hybrids and hybridization among bulbous plants, C. G. Van Tubergen 

 {Oard. Chron., 3 ser., J,0 (1906), No. 1025, pp. 132-134) .—This is a paper pre- 

 sented before the Hybridization Conference in London, in which the author 

 gives an account of some of the hybrids obtained with Lilium, Brunsvigia 

 josephitKe, Colchicum, Eremurus. Freesias, Gladiolus. Hymenocallis, Iris, and 

 Nerine. 



Compilation of analyses of fruits, garden crops, and insecticides, II. D. 

 Haskixs (Maf^saclniKctts *S7(/. Rpt. 19il5, pp. IS'j-lDU). — Compiled analyses with 

 reference to fertilizing constituents are given for a large number of orchard 

 and small fruits, grapes, and vegetables, including sugar beets, potatoes, corn, 

 and tobacco, with a table showing the relative proportions of phosphoric acid, 

 potassium, and nitrogen in vegetables, and analyses of 20 insecticides. The 

 composition of 20 prominent garden crops shows on the average, in a thousand 

 parts, nitrogen 4.1, potassivml oxid 3.9, and phosphoric acid 1.9 per cent. 



FORESTRY. 



Administration report of the forest circles in the Bombay presidency, 

 including Sind, for the year 1904-5 (Admin. Rpt. Forest Dept. Bomhay, 

 190-'i-5. pp. 110). — The usual schedule reports are given showing the reserved, 

 protected, and unclassed forests in the northern, central, southern, and Sind 

 forest circles, with an account of the wouk of the year, etc. The appendices as 

 usual show the detail of expenditures incurred in the different circles and re- 

 ceipts from different sources, the progress inade in working plans, statement of 

 forests surveyed, etc. 



Reports on forest administration in Burma for the year 1904-5 (Rpts. 

 Forest Admin. Burma, 190^-5, pp. 113). — An outline is given of the forestry 

 work done during the year in each of the forest circles of Pegu, Tenasserim, 

 northern, and southern, with a general summary of the same by the Chief Con- 

 servator of Forests, F. B. Bryant. 



Under the subject of sylviculture it is stated that the natural rei)roduction of 

 teak is generally scarce or even absent in areas which have been long protected 

 from fire, and that where areas are annually burnt over reproduction is gen- 

 erally satisfactory. Selection fellings in moist forests uTider fire protection 

 have not usually been followed by satisfactory teak reproduction. ' 



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