EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Mini Ireland; lists of the principal nurserymen, seedsmen, and florists of European 

 countries and the British colonies, of landscape gardeners, and of commission mer- 

 chants and salesmen a1 the Covenl Garden Market, London; and tables, receipts, 

 and miscellaneous information of interest to horticulturists. 

 Garden-making ; suggestions for the utilizing of home grounds, L. II. Bailey 

 Vein For*: The Macmillan Co., 1898, pp. (17, figs. 256).— The book is one of the 

 Garden-craft series. It contains a chapter on such topics as preparation of the laud, 

 sowing and planting, winter protection, forcing plants, insects and diseases, etc.; a 

 chapter on the plau of the place, including discussions of the "picture in the land- 

 Bcape," the fundamentals of landscape gardening, specific examples, and how the 

 improvements arc made; a chapter on planting the ornamental grounds, containing a 

 list of ornamental plants hardy in centra] Michigan, and remarks by Ernest Walker 

 on plants for floral effects, flower beds, carpet-bedding, borders, annuals, bulbous 

 ami tuberous plants, hardy herbaceous perennials, climbing plants, etc.; a chapter 

 on the fruit plantation, contributed largely by L. R. Taf't, and including the grape, 

 small fruits, northern orchard fruits, and subtropical fruits; a chapter on the vege- 

 table garden, written in large part by F. A. Waugh; and a chapter on seasonal 

 reminders, giving monthly calendars of garden operations for the North by 

 T. Greiner and for the South by II. W. Smith and V. II. Burnette. 



Greenhouse management. L. R. Taft (New York: Orange Judd Co., 1898, pp. 382, 

 figs. 1 .s). — This is a manual on the forcing of flowers, vegetables, and fruits in 

 greenhouses and on the propagation and care of house plants. Chapters are devoted 

 to the insect enemies and fungus diseases of greenhouse plants and the preparation 

 and uBe of insecticides and fungicides. 



FORESTRY. 



Notes on the annual growth of forest trees, W. E. Lazenby 

 Proc. Soc. Prom. Agr. ISci., 1897, pp. 15-19). — This is the presidential 

 address delivered by the author at the Detroit meeting of the Society. 

 The importance of growing forest trees and the preservation of wood- 

 lands is pointed out, and the author urges the planting of forest trees 

 for timber, shelter, and protection, as well as for ornament and land- 

 scape effect. 



A report is given on an experiment begun in the fall of 1882, in which 

 the seeds of a dozen or more varieties of native forest trees were col- 

 lected and placed under suitable conditions for planting the following 

 spring al Columbus, Ohio. The species selected were wild black cherry, 

 black walnut, black locust, sugar maple, catalpa, red maple, cucumber 

 tree; white, black, and blueash; bur, scarlet, aud yellow oaks; American 

 chestnut, Kentucky coffee tree, and beech. The seeds were planted in 

 the spring of 1883, and, with the exception of the chestnuts, oaks, and 

 black walnuts, all the trees were transplanted from the seed bed when 

 a year old. The trees were grown in rows 3^ ft. apart aud 2 ft. in the 

 row. Careful cultivation was given for the first few years until the trees 

 had attained sufficient size to shade the ground, when no further culti- 

 vation was needed. Notes were taken from time to time on the annual 

 growth and diameter, and the following observations were made relative 

 to the growth of the trees: 



"(1) The increase in diameter of trunk did not hear a constant ratio to the increase 

 iu height, hut appeared to be mainly dependent upon the leaf development. That 



