EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Pickling, White Spine, and Japanese Climbing; lettuce— Grand Rapids, Tennis Ball, 

 RawHon Hoi I ae, All Seasons, Half Century, Landreth Earliest, Italian ice, Simp- 

 son Curled, and Wonderful; tomatoes— Vanghan Earliest, Atlantic, Leader, Ruby, 

 Vdvance, Potato leaf [gnotum, Acme, Beauty, [gnotutn, Perfection, Optimus, Golden 

 Queen, Miner,and Pouderosa; cabbage— Henderson Early Summer, Wakefield, Early 

 Drumhead, All Head, Earlj York, Autumn King, Lupton, Mid-Summer, Succession, 

 and World Beater; potatoes— Irish Cobbler, Sis Weeks, Algoma, White Ohio, Har- 

 rington Peer, Woodhull, Accidental, Uncle Sam, Klondyke, Mill Banner, Good 

 Times, Planet jr., sir Walter Raleigh, Carman X<>. I, Carman No. 3, Enormous, 

 Rural New Yorker No. 2, Peachblow, Livingston Banner, and Beauty of Beauties. 



Livingston's celery book, E. J. Hollister {Columbus, Ohio: A. W. Livingston's 

 g on8 t898, pp. 96, figs. ? ).— The book contains directions for the preparation of the 

 I, culi me, and marketing of celery, based on twenty years' experience with the 



Mil 



crop. 



Preliminary report on Arkansas seedling apples, .7. T. Stinsox {Arkansas Sta. 

 Bui. 49, pp. :<>. figs. tS).— For several years the author has been investigating the 

 Beedling apples of Arkansas origin. In this preliminary report of the investigation 

 descriptive and historical notes arc given on twenty of the most important of these 

 seedling apples. 



American apples in Belgium, H. C. MORRIS ( U. S. Consular L'jits., 1898, No. 210, 



P,,. IS1-4S5). 



Manual of fruit-tree culture, A. Berne ( Manuel d' arboriculture fruitiere. Mont- 

 pellier: Camille Could; Paris: Masson ei Cie., 1898, pp. 301, figs. 147).— The book 

 treats of soils and fertilizers for fruit trees; planting, pruning, training, varieties, 

 and diseases of firuit trees; the picking and storage of fruit, etc. A large part of 

 the book is devoted to the methods of pruning and training. 



Damage from cold and best methods of prevention {Florida Agr., 25, Xo. 18, 

 }>p. 178-175). — This is an address by the president of the Florida State Horticultural 

 Society on the damage of cold to orange groves and means of preventing it. 



Future of some of our native fruits, nuts, and shrubs, J. L. Budd {Iowa State 

 Hort. Soc. Bpt., SS I 1897), pp. 818-3% 



Winter protection of the peach, J. C. Whitten {Missouri Sta. Bpt. 1897, pp. 

 140-159, figs. 5).— Reprinted from Bulletin 38 of the station (E. S. R., 9, p. 835). 



Cultivation and management of the peach, J. C. Whitten {Missouri Sta. Bpt. 

 pp. 159-164).— Reprinted from Bulletin 38 of the station (E. S. R., 9, p. 837). 



Cooperative experiments with small fruit, D. T. Price {Mississippi Sta. />'"/. 

 46, pp. 8). — I'll*- bulletin gives variety tests and directions for the culture of straw- 

 berries, raspberries, blackberries, and grapes. From tests of some 50 varieties of 

 Btrawberries, the author recommends the following for northeast Mississippi: Lady 

 Thompson, < irescent, Bubach, Tennessee Prolific, Brandywine, and Lovett. Testsof 

 a limited number of varieties of raspberries and blackberries are reported. Turner 

 was the onh red raspberry and Gregg the only black raspberry that was satisfactory. 

 Of the blackberries tested. Dallas. Snyder, Erie, Lawton, and Taylor did well. Of 

 the '■'>'■'' varieties of grapes tested, Pocklington, Triumph, Reissling, and Moore Early 

 proved the i>est. 



Notes on small fruits grown in 1897, F. II. Ham. {New York Stale Sta. Buls. 127 

 and 188, popular ed., pp. 5). — A popular edition of Bulletins 127 and 128 of the station 

 (E. s. R.. 9, p. 1052). 



Raspberries, blackberries, and grapes, L. R. Taft and H. P. Gladden ( Michigan 

 Sta. Bui. 151, pp. 168-169). — The results of tests of 40 varieties of raspberries and 19 

 of blackberries are given in tables and descriptive notes. Notes are also given on 

 some 20 varieties of grapes. The following varieties of raspberries were most promis- 

 ing: BZacfc— Palmer, Conrath, Kansas. Gregg, older. Black Diamond, and Mills No. 

 15; purple — Shaffer, Columbian. Beckwith, and Kedlield; red — Cuthbert, Loudon, 

 Marlboro, Uansell, Phoenix, and Stayman No. 1. 



Strawberry growing in New Hampshire, F. W. Rane (New Hampshire Sta. Bui. 



