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Page. 



Some chemical and bacteriological effects of liming, Voorheea et al 828 



Kxperiments on the liming of meadow land, Porter and (iant 829 



Inspection of connnercial fertilizers, Ha.skin.«, Ladd, and Dickinson 829 



Analyses of conunerciul fertilizers and ground hone, Cathcart et al 829 



The fisheries of Alaska in 1906, Cohh and Kutchin 829 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Influence of humidity of air on preservation of seed, Demoussy S29 



Proteolytic changes occurring in Lima bean during germination, Suzuki 830 



The dry -weight of plants under different light intensities, Lubimenko 881 



Action of a magnetic tield of high frecjuency on Penicillium, Lesage 831 



Influence of stinuilating compounds upon crops, Uchiyama 881 



The toxicity of tlie salts of chromium, aluminium, and magnesium, Hebert. . 831 



Seed and soil inoculation, Bottomley 832 



Results of soil inoculation 882 



Influence of nectaries and other tissues on opening of anthers, Burck 832 



On the formation of flowers after frost, Daikuhara 832 



The formation of callus and wound tissues on ringed twigs, Krieg 833 



The Indian cottons, Gammie 833 



Variations in poppies, Blaringhem 833 



FIELD CROPS. 



New Jersey salt marsh ami its improvement, Smith 833 



Experiment station reports, Nobbs 833 



Influence of fertilizer on structures of stem in the Graminea-, Kissel 834 



Influence of fertilizers upon the constituents of the oat plant, Pingree 835 



Breeding early cotton to escape boll-weevil damage, Bennett 836 



Raising Egyptian cotton, Iddings 887 



[Variety tests of cotton and of corn], Calvin 837 



Hay crops of the Tnited States, 1866-1906, Clark 838 



Improving the quality of domestic hojts, Stockberger ... 838 



Biological studies on the color in the grain of rye. Gross 838 



Distance experiments with sugar beets, Bukovansky 838 



Experiments in growing Sumatra tobacco under tent, 1904, Frear 838 



The tobacco industry in the United States, Jacobstein 839 



T( >))acco ash 839 



HORTICULTURE. 



Novelties in vegetable fruit, Halsted 840 



Vegetable growing, Costenoble 840 



The bean industry of Ontario, White 840 



Sweet-corn investigations, Straughn 840 



Lettuce culture, Austin and Halstead 842 



Fruit culture in the Dutch East Indies, Heijl and Kwast 842 



Fruits of Ontario, 1906 842 



Experiment on preservation of cider apples with formalin, Warcollier 843 



.Ia|)anese persinnnons, Burnette 843 



Tlie best wine grapes for (.'alifornia. Pruning, Bioletti 843 



Influence of pinching fruit-bearing shoots on the sugar content of the grape, 



Riviere 844 



The tea industries of Java, Formosa, and Japan, Kingsford and Bamber 844 



Tlicohroma cacao: Its botany, cultivation, chemistry, and diseases, Wjight 844 



Cacao cultivation, Barrett 845 



The art an<l craft of garden making, Mawson 845 



The brjok of rock and water gardens, Thonger 845 



The ])roduction of Easter lily bulbs in the United States, Oliver 845 



The rose and the essence of roses 846 



FORESTRY. 



British trees. Cole. 846 



Our trees and how to know them. Kirk 846 



Big trees of California, Clark 846 



forest tables for western yellow pine, Ziegler 846 



