IV . CONTENTS. 



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The present status of varieties in commercial orchards, Drinkard, jr 144 



Vegetable forcing with special reference to etherization of strawberries, Bultel. . 145 



Grape stocks best suited for dry and limy soils, Garcia de los Salmones 145 



Hot room callusing, Bioletti and Bonnet 145 



Investigations on the practice of heading-in grapes, Ravaz 145 



Grape culture in Pennsylvania, Sill 145 



Contribution to the study of olive varieties, Ruby 145 



Protecting the California orange crop from frost, Mc Adie 145 



Keeping quality of citrus fruit treated to eliminate frosted fruit, Mann 145 



Alcohol for sejiaration of frosted fruit, Lefferts 145 



Fruit drying, Allen 146 



Morpholojiic-physiologic investigations of the flowers of coffee, von Faber 146 



Coffee culture, Tellez 146 



, Fertilizer experiments with coffee, Helmrich 146 



The coco palm and its culture, Preuss 146 



Roses, Darlington 146 



Planning and adorning the farmstead 146 



FORESTRY. 



A classification for forestry literature 147 



Forest administration in Western and Eastern Circles, Osmaston and Campbell . . 147 



Report of forest department of Madras Presidency, 1911, Lushington et al 147 



The important timber trees of the United States, Elliott 147 



Silviculture, Werckle 147 



Forest catalogue of Mexico 147 



The hardy catalpa ( Catalpa spcdosa) 147 



Histology of woods of Biota orientalis and Thuja occidcntalis, Hollendonner 147 



A note on some germination tests with sal (Shorca robusta) seed , Troup 147 



Influence of origin and germinative power of pine seed on progeny, Schroder. . 148 



Monograph on the rubber industry in Bolivia, Ballivian and Pinilla 148 



Growing a woodlot from seed , Ferguson 148 



Results of sand and ravine binding work in Russia 148 



Note on the antiseptic treatment of timber in India, Pearson 148 



On wood preservation with fluoride, Nowotny 148 



How to prolong the life of fence posts, Ferguson 148 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Diseases and injuries to cultivated plants in 1909 148 



Fungi, an attempt at their classification, Vuillemin 149 



Some new parasitic fungi of Japan , Shirai and Hara 149 



Notes on the Japanese. species of Phragmidium, Kasai 149 



Cardinal temperatures for germination of uredospores of cereal rusts, Johnson. . 149 



A new method of combating smut of cereals, D'Ippolito 149 



Ergot on oats, Warburton 149 



Leaf spot of oats, Nilsson-Ehle 149 



A Sclerotium disease of blue joint and other grasses. Stout 150 



Potato crop and seed, Appel 150 



Blackleg of potato, Behrens and Marpmann 150 



Inheritance of leaf-roll disease, Schmid 150 



Factors governing germination and infection with Phytophthora infestans, Melhus 151 



Hypertrophy-structure in potatoes, Fucsko 151 



Lime sulphur, lead benzoate, and Bordeaux for potatoes, Stewart and French . . . 151 



Nematode disease of the sugar beet, Nemec 151 



Averting nematode injury, Kriiger _. 152 



A new method for combating the sereh disease of sugar cane, Valeton, jr 152 



A new fruit disease of eggplant, Ilanzawa 152 



Withertip of fruit and ornamental trees, Voges 152 



Cement dust injury to fruit trees, Anderson 152 



Foliage diseases of the apple. Reed, Cooley, and Rogers 152 



The simultaneous treatment for control of downy and powdery mildew, Martelli . 153 



Invasion of Europe by the American gooseberry mildew and oak mildew, Kock. 153 



The influence of Hemilcia vastatrix on the culture of coffee in Java, Cramer 153 



Injury to pines by smelter gases. Feist 154 



New fungi on Japanese bamboos, Miyake and Hara 154 



The importanre of sanitation in the control of certain plant diseases, Jones 154 



Covering power of precipitation membranes of Bordeaux mixture, Lutman 154 



