CONTENTS. Til 



Page. 



Field experiments with nitrogenous fertilizers at Pare des Princes, Grandeau. 325 



Changes in the fermentation of manure, Sjollema and dc Kuijtcr de Wildt 325 



Experiments with lime as a prest-rvative of manure, WrihuU 325 



Does didymium c-idorid injuriously affect plant growth? Bottcher 326 



Relation betwH'cn care of licjuid manure a*nd content of fertilizing constituents, 



Stutzer and Vageli-r 326 



Piidsphates in New Zealand, Aston 326 



I'hosphates in Nantes, (ioldschmidt 326 



Action of difticultly soluble phosphates on rye by means of lu])ines, Mayer 326 



The selection and use of fertilizers, Brooks 326 



Food for plants 327 



Commercial fertilizers, Roberts 327 



Analysis of commercial fertilizers sold in Maryland, .McDoiiiicll ct al 327 



Analyses of commercial fertilizi'rs, Frear 327 



Review of progress in the fertilizer industry for 1905 327 



The fertilizer season records, Bunnners 327 



Consumption of fertilizers, season of 1905-6 327 



Sludge treatment in relation to sewage disposal, Watson 327 



AOUICI'LTl'KAL ){OTANY. 



Flora of the State of Washington, Pijier 328 



Absorption of atmosidieric moisture by desert shrubs, Spalding 328 



Relation of desert plants to soil moisture and evaporation, Livingston 328 



Variations in nitrogen and phosphoric acid of succulent plants, Andre , 329 



Cyanogenesis in plants, IV-V, Dunstan, Henry, and Auld 330 



Additional species of rosaceous plants containing hydrocyanic acid, (hiignard. ;>30 



'The latent vitality of seeds, Becquerel 330 



FIELD CROPS. 



Crop rotation, Cole 331 



Results of culture experiments in 1905 331 



The blossoming of barley, Fruwirth 332 



The respiration of barley, (^vam 332 



The study of corn, Shoesmith 332 



Cott( >n culture in Korea 332 



Improvement of cotton by seed selection, Thornton 332 



A test of commercial cultures for legumes, Butz 332 



Culture tests with potatoes in 1905, Dannfelt and Rhotlin 333 



Potato culture experiments, 1905, Weibull et al 333 



Influence of period and fertilizer on compcjsition of potato tubers, Vageler 334 



Tria 1 tests with rye, Hansen et al 335 



Comparative tests with varieties of sugar cane, Ei-kart 335 



Macan >ni or durum wheats, Shepard 335 



HOKTICULTCKE. 



Studies in jilant breeding in the Tropics, Lock 336 



Truth about ginseng culture, Evans 336 



Seed packing for the Tropics, I'atterson 336 



Fruit industry 336 



Statistics and fruit crop report. Peart 336 



\'arieties of fruit for the home orchard, Price 336 



Drying up of orange trees as result of autumn siroccos, i'onf and (<cnet 337 



Oil })alm culture, Strunk 337 



Mulberrii'S, Hume and Reimer , 337 



Canning pineapjiles 1 337 



Viticulture in New Zealand, Bragato 337 



< ireen manuring in tea culturi^ in India, >hinn and Hutchinson 337 



Treatment of dett-riorated tea, .Mann 338 



Report on a samjile of coc^oanut "water" from Ceylon, Dunstan 338 



Mechanical effect^ of frost on fruit and forest trees, Sorauer 338 



Knglish walnuts in New York, I'omeroy 339 



TIk' pecan and its cidture, Hume 339 



Ornamental trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants in Minnesota, Green 339 



