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Seed tests made at the station during 1913, Munu 139 



Purity of farm seeds in 1913, Hall 139 



Results of seed tests for 1913, Taylor and App 139 



Report of seed tests for 1913, Burgess 139 



Better seed, Harris 139 



Homemade seed-corn testers, Hughes 139 



Unlawful Iowa weeds and their extermination, Pammel and King 139 



HORTICULTURE. 



Commercial gardening, edited by Weathers 140 



Effect of an increased carbonjc acid in the air on green plants, Fischer 140 



Experiments with udo, the new Japanese vegetable, Fairchild 140 



An apple chimera. Castle 140 



Pollination in orchards. — II, The flowering of pears, Chittenden 140 



The effect of fertilizers in a cultivated orchard, Gourley 141 



Spraying for orchard and vineyard in South Carolina, Conradi and Barre 141 



Analyses for poison of apples sprayed with lead arsenate in midsummer, Woods . . 141 



Analyses of materials sold as insecticides and fungicides, Cathcart et al 142 



Making a garden of small fruits, Rockwell 142 



Currants and gooseberries, Palmer 142 



Propagation of the seedless breadfruit. Wester 142 



Cacao culture in Samoa, Demandt 142 



New researches into some statistics of Coffea, Van der Wolk 142 



Fruits of a date palm in the Tertiary deposits of eastern Texas, Berry 142 



The present state of olive growing in Italy, Bracci 142 



Chestnut breeding experience. Van Fleet 142 



California gardens, Murmann 143 



Garden flowers as they grow, Essenhigh-Corke and Thomas 143 



The rose book, Thomas et al 143 



FORESTRY. 



Silvicultm-e, Jacquot 143 



Forest protection, von Fiirst 143 



Forest trees, shrubs, and bushes, Gatin 143 



Contribution to the knowledge of the oil palm (Elseis guineensis) , Beccari 143 



Rubber, its sources, cultivation, and preparation. Brown 143 



Rubber culture.— I, Jlevea brasiliensis, Zaepernick 144 



Suitability of long-leaf pine for paper pulp, Surface and Cooper 144 



Uses for chestnut timber killed by the bark disease, Nellis 144 



Rocky Mountain mine timbers, Betts 144 



Tests of wooden barrels, Newlin 144 



DISEASES OF PL.VNTS. 



Organization in various countries for the protection of plants, Saulnier 145 



Problems and progress in plant pathology, Jones 145 



Agi'icultural bacteriology, special inquiries, Hutchinson 145 



Notes on some rusts in India, Butler 145 



The ascosporic condition of the genus Aschersonia, Thaxter 145 



Plasmodiophoracese and their relation to Mycetozoa and Chytrideae, Schwartz. . 145 



North American Uredinese, Holway 145 



Some observations on a peculiar soil disease, Collinge 146 



Injury by smelter smoke in southeastern Tennessee, Hedgcock 146 



A study in cereal rusts, physiological races, Stakman 146 



[Grain diseases] 147 



[The stem rot of cereals], Mangin 147 



Experiments on control of loose smut of barley and wheat, Schander 147 



Bad germination of wheat seed 148 



Causes of soil sickness in wheat lands, etc., BoUey 148 



Danger in threshing machines 148 



Finger-and-toe disease of crucifers, Berthault 148 



Finger-and-toe, Fron 148 



Finger-and-toe of crucifers. Gay 148 



Finger-and-toe of crucifers and a disease of carrots, Passy 149 



Finger-and-toe disease in Brussels sprouts 149 



