340 EXPEEIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Analyses of materials sold as insecticides and fungicides (New York State 

 Sta. Bui. 384 {19U), pp. 283-302) .—This comprises data on the guarantied and 

 found analyses of samples of materials sold as insecticides and fungicides wMch 

 were collected in different parts of the State. 



Practical tree surgery, J. F. Collins {U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1913, pp. 

 163-190, pis. 7). — In this article the author describes the various parts of the 

 tree and their functions, together with the methods employed in the renovation 

 of injured and decayed trees. Suggestions are also given relative to precautions 

 to be taken by tree owners when employing commercial tree surgeons to attend 

 their trees. 



Plants, etc., certificated by the [Royal Horticultural] Society from 1859 

 to 1910, inclusive (London: Roy. Eort. Soc, 1911, pp. 195). — This comprises 

 a list of all the fruits, vegetables, decorative plants and flowers, ferns, daffodils, 

 and tulips to which the Roj-al Horticultural Society of England has granted 

 certificates from the year 1859 to the end of 1910, with the exception of purely 

 florists' flowers certificated previous to 1890, many of which have been super- 

 seded and have become obsolete. 



[Antirrhinums and miscellaneous flowering plants at Wisley, 1913] 

 (Jour. Boy. Hort. Soc. {London'], 39 (1914), No. 3, pp. 635-656, 665-673).— De- 

 scriptive notes are given on some 207 stocks of antirrhinums and on a large 

 number of miscellaneous flowering plants tested at the Wisley Gardens in 1913. 



Decorative garden dahlies at Duffryn, near Cardiff (Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. 

 [London], 39 (1914), ^o. 3, pp. 657-664)- — Descriptive notes on a large number 

 of varieties of dahlias tested on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society and 

 the National Dahlia Society of England are given. 



Garden design, E. White (Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. [London], 39 (1914), ^o^ S, 

 pp. 559-580, pis. 12). — This comprises the substance of two lectures on garden 

 design, delivered before the Royal Horticultural Society. 



The commuter's garden, edited by W. B. Hayward (Ne-w York, 1914, pp. 

 VII-\-219, pis. 16). — A popular work dealing with vegetable and ornamental 

 gardening in the suburbs, including suggestions relative to poultry raising, bee 

 keeping, etc. 



Identifying plants without a key, S. F. Hamblin (Boston, 1914, PP- 25, 

 figs. 50). — In this pamphlet the author calls attention to interesting points in 

 botanic difference or relation that apply to the twigs, buds, leaves, flowers, 

 fruit, or specific peculiarities of various trees, shrubs, and herbs, and which 

 will be of assistance in placing the plants in their proper families. 



FORESTRY. 



Report of the forestry committee of the Fifth National Conservation 

 Congress at Washington, D. C, November 18-20, 1913 (Rpt. Forestry Com. 

 5. Nat. Conserv. Cong., 1913, pp. 397, pi. 1). — This report, which also includes 

 those of the various subcommittees of the forestry section, deals with the 

 following subjects: Publicity, forest planting, state forest policy, forest 

 taxation, forest school education, forest investigations, lumbering, forest utiliza- 

 tion, forest fires, and federal forest policy. The resolutions on forestry adopted 

 by the congress are given and the following addresses are also included : Fed- 

 eral Forestry, by H. S. Graves (pp. 360-365) ; Economic Factors in Private 

 Forestry Work, by E. A. Sterling (pp. 366-377) ; Public Knowledge of Forest 

 Economics, by E. T. Allen (pp. 378-384) ; Conservation of Life in the Lumber 

 Camps, by Mabel T. Boardman (pp. 385-389) ; The Lumberman's Point of 

 View, by J. E. Rhodes (pp. 390-394) ; Lumbermen and Forestry, by W. Irvine 



