736 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Under results with fruits the datu on variety and fertilizer tests are given, 

 together with the period of blooming and ripening of the fruit. The author 

 states that the data secured on fruits during the past 14 years are not very 

 favorable since the climate is not adapted to the successful culture of many 

 of the fruits reported upon, except to a limited extent. Condensed notes are 

 given on the canning of fruits and vegetables, including a discussion of the 

 advantages of home-canning, and brief remarks on the most profitable sorts for 

 canning, including tomatoes, string beans, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, peaches, 

 berries, and cane syrup. A homemade canning outfit is described, which can 

 be built at a cost not exceeding $40. A preliminary report on the experiments 

 in truck growing and canning has been noted (E. S. R., 17, p. 364). 



Tomato fertilizers at Troupe, W. S. Hotchkiss and E. C. -Green (Texas 

 Sta. Bui. 8Jf, pp. 15, figs. 6). — An account of fertilizer experiments and variety 

 tests with tomatoes at the Troupe Station during the seasons of 1904 and 1905. 



The fertilizer ingredients used included cottonseed meal, muriate of potash, 

 acid phosphate, wood ashes, cow manure, nitrate of soda, lime, and tankage, 

 either alone or in combinations. Beauty, Acme, and Earliana were the varieties 

 tested. Tables are given showing the yield of marketable and unmarketable 

 fruit gathered at each picking from the different fertilizers and varieties used. 

 The experiments were conducted on soil composed of a very fine gray sand, 

 running from 8 to 18 in. in depth and underlaid with a red clay soil. 



The use of potash, either in the form of muriate of potash or wood ashes, 

 alone or in combination, was found to be unsatisfactory. The use of large 

 quantities of lime alone appeared to be injurious. Nitrate of soda, which was 

 also tried in 190.3, was abandoned after the 1904 experiment, as this form of 

 nitrogen gave no better result than in the form of cotton-seed meal. 



Cow manure gave fairly good results, but the largest and earliest yields were 

 obtained from the use of acid phosphate alone on new lands comparatively 

 rich in humus, and acid phosphate in combination with cotton-seed meal on 

 old lands deficient in humus and fertility. For soils similar to that at the 

 station the authors suggest the following formula : Acid phosphate 1.200 lbs. 

 and cotton-seed meal 800 lbs., using from 400 to 600 lbs. per acre of the mixture. 



Earliana produced the largest quantities of early tomatoes, aiyj is recom- 

 mended as a variety for early shipments. The authors, however, do not recom- 

 mend it as compared with Acme or Beauty for a general purpose variety. 



Money in cucumbers, W. Dunn (Amer. Agr., 1901, Feb. 9, p. 166). — The 

 author, who is a truck gi'ower in Craven county. North Carolina, states that 

 he recently realized $4,000 from 7 .acres of cucumbers, which after deducting 

 a total expense of less than $100 an acre, left him over $3,000 net profit. 



The artichoke, R. F. Le Feuvre (La Alcachofa. Santiago de Chile: Inst. 

 Agr. Chile, 1906. pp. 120, figs. 26). — A monograph on the artichoke Cynara 

 scolymus, known in this country as the Globe artichoke and valued for its 

 edible flower heads and petals. The cardoon (C. cardunculus) an allied form, 

 is classed with the artichoke in this publication. 



The w^ork includes a discussion of the origin, general importance, climatic 

 adaptation, and cultivated varieties of the artichoke in various countries, and 

 gives specific directions for its propagation, cultivation, and harvesting in Chile, 

 together with the products, their uses and methods of preservation. An ex- 

 tensive bibliography of the artichoke is also given. 



Cultivation of fruit trees, L. Buss.\rd and G. Duval (Arboriculture Fruiti- 

 ere. Paris: J. B. BaiUiere d- Sons, 1907, pp. 562, figs. i88).— This volume is one 

 of the series which constitute the agricultural encyclopedia published under the 

 direction of G. Wery. 



