IV CONTENTS. 



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The fibers of long-staple and nplanci cottons. Allard 534 



Artificial fertilizers for cotton in the central provinces, Olouston 534 



The milling properties of oats, Greig and Findlay .534 



Experiments on transmission in the potato, Grabner .5.35 



Selection of potato varieties for distilleries, Kossman 535 



The violet Sohntiim coniiurrsoni, A. and P. Andonard 535 



The morphological inflnenee of fertilizers on the potato, Vageler .5.36 



Potato experiments of the Podolsk agricnltnral society, Lubansky .5.36 



The action of manganese on the potato and the sugar beet, Gregoire et al_ 536 



The chemical composition of beet seed, Fallada .537 



The chemical comjiosition of sugar-beet seed, Rtrohmer and Fallada .537 



Results on experiment fields of Russian sugar manufacturers. Frankfort- _ 537 

 The influence of different quantities of manure and conunercial fertilizers 



applied to winter wheat on the succeeding beet crop, Frankfort 538 



Observations on the growth of winter wheat in 1005, Kozlovski 538 



HORTICULTURE. 



Horticultural survey of [Texas] Gulf coast, (Jreen 538 



Horticulture in Egypt 539 



Phenology as an aid to horticulture, Mawley 539 



Influence of the stock on the scion. Riviere 539 



Variations which frequently occur among flowering plants, Duval 539 



Report of experimental fields in South Holland for 1900, Glaassen et al 539 



American varieties of garden beans, Tracy 539 



Celery culture. Beattie .540 



The best fruits at the beginning of the twentieth century 540 



Some little-known edible fruits of the United States, Rusby 540 



Investigations on the dropping of young fruit, Osterwalder 540 



A treatise on citrus culture from seed to fruit, Masters 540 



Curing the lemon, Allen 541 



On the dwarf coffee of the Sassandra, Coffea hiunilis, Che^iilier 541 



The cold storage of small fruits. Fulton 542 



The graft-stocks for dry soils, Capus 543 



Vine culture and wine trade in Germaily, Niessen 543 



Peppermint; a croj) for swamp lands 543 



Perfumes: Their source and extraction, Umney 544 



The book of water gardening, Bisset 544 



FORESTRY. 



The trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Elwes and Henry 544 



Our trees, Correvon 544 



The forests of the northern coast of Albania, Baldacci 544 



How to grow young trees for forest planting, Sterling 544 



The cultivation of the manna tree .' 545 



Forest planting in Connecticut, 1907, Hawes 545 



Report of work at the reservation and experimental station, 1905 545 



Forest planting in Indiana, Douglass 545 



Forest planting in eastern Nebraska, Miller 545 



Forest laws [Massachusetts], Rane 545 



Prolonging the life of mine timbers. Nelson 545 



The preservation of timber 546 



The life and preservation of pitch pine fence posts, Buffuni 546 



Exports and imports of forest products, 1906, Kellogg 547 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Notes on some plant diseases, Bartlett 547 



Notes on the parasitism of Botrytis, Brooks 547 



Cotton wilt, Fulton 548 



Prevention of sorghum and Kafir corn smut, Roberts and Freeman 548 



Present knowledge regarding potato diseases, Appel and Kreitz 548 



A bacterial disease of i)otatoes, Appel 548 



Some apple diseases, Stevens and Hall 548 



Apple leaf spots, Salmon 549 



