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Hardiness of peach buds as influenced by the care of the orchard, Chandler. . . 439 



Variety test of peaches, Morris 439 



Japan plum Pathfinder, Strang 439 



Origin and importance of the Scuppernong and other Muscadine grapes, Reimer . 439 



Fruits recommended by the American Pomological Society 440 



On Coffea robusta and Bukoba coffee ( Cofea bukobcnsis), Zimmerman 440 



Hotbeds and cold frames; their preparation and management, Howard 440 



The vegetable garden, Bennett 440 



The farmer's home garden, Dacy 440 



Biggie orchard book. Biggie 440 



Orcharding in east Tennessee, Keffer 440 



The suburbanite's handbook of dwarf fruit tree culture, Thornton 440 



The garden yard; a handbook of intensive farming, Hall 441 



The book of the cottage garden, Thonger 441 



Little gardens and how to make the most of them, Thomas 441 



A little Maryland garden. Hays 441 



The summer garden of pleasure, Batson 441 



House plants and how to grow them, Barnes 441 



Sweet peas and how to grow them, Thomas 441 



FORESTRY. 



Relation between germination percentage and intrinsic value of pine seeds. 



Storing pine seed without injury to germination percentage, Haack 441 



Further fertilizer experiments with forest seedlings on sandstone soils, Vater 442 



The influence of cultural methods on the yield of the common pine, Kunze. . . 443 



Properties and uses of the southern pines, Betts 443 



The effect of the soil of the hemlock grove on seedlings, Robinson 443 



Paper birch in the Northeast, Dana 443 



The tree-cotton or kapok tree {Eriodendron anfractuosum) , Miicke 443 



The balata industry in Surinam, Fock 443 



New facts on the Bleekrodea tonkinensis, Dubard and Eberhardt 444 



Rubber from southern India 444 



Trees of commerce, Stevenson 444 



The timber supply of the United States, Kellogg 444 



Forest products of the United States, 1907 444 



Practical assistance to owners of forest land and to tree planters 444 



The wood commerce of the Saxon railroads in the years 1883-1907, Mammen 444 



The net revenues of the Saxon state forests for the year 1907, Bruhm 445 



A report on forest management in Italy during the biennial period 1906-7 445 



Forest administration in United Provinces for 1907-8, Osmaston and Jackson. . 445 



Forest administration of the Central Provinces for 1907-8, Gradon et al 445 



Scientific forestry, forest zoology, and botany for 1908, Weber 445 



DISEASE.S OF PLANTS. 



The loose smuts of barley and wheat, Freeman and Johnson 445 



Smut and rust of cereals and their prevention. Kirchner 446 



The wintering of parasitic fungi, and combating their attacks, Riehm 446 



The fungus and insect enemies of beets, Ulrich 446 



Root tumors on sugar beeta, Reinelt 446 



The heart and dry rots of sugar beets, Krtiger and Wimmer 446 



The internal disease of the potato, Home 447 



The composition of potatoes attacked by Phy tophthora, Riviere and Bailhache . . 447 



A new anthracnose of figs, Stevens and Hall 447 



A leaf disease of the olive, Petri 447 



The fungi of yerba mate, Spegazzini 447 



American gooseberry mildew 447 



■ The mildew of gooseberries, Fron '. ^ 448 



Diseases of deciduous forest trees, von Schrenk and Spaulding 448 



The catalpa leaf spot, Parker 448 



Observations on the oak mildew inl908, Noffray 449 



A new fungus on swamp cedar. Banker 449 



Carnation alternariose, Stevens and Hall 449 



