PUBLICATIONS ON AGRICULTURAL BOTANY IN FRANCE. 947 



flora of France : Liriodendron tuliinfera, Ostrya virginica, Juglans nigra, 

 J. cinerea, Abies jriiisatw, A. cephaloniea, A. sp.? Pseudotxuga doiiglasi, 

 Pinus strohi(,s^ Tltuiid occidentalism Cedrela sinensis j and Parrot id persica. 

 Dollfus' has published an account of the culture of the cork oak in 

 Spain and Portugal, and Thil^ has given anatomical and physical 

 descriptions of transverse sections of 100 species of native woods. 

 Huftel ■ has described the royal forests of Prussia, and DuvaP has 

 established the fact that I'latanns orientalis was introduced into France 

 in 15S2 instead of 1754, as generally believed. This opinion is con- 

 tirnied by the researches of Trelease, of the Shaw Botanic (xardens of 

 St. Louis, Missouri. 



In addition to the above, mention may be made of the following pub- 

 lications of more or less importance: Culture and value of carrots 

 for forage, by Denaifle,'' and by the same author'' on the culture and 

 comparative value of forage vetches as shown by trials at Ardennes; 

 improvement of clovers by selection, by Schribaux;' the culture of 

 .oats on poor soils, as shown by field trials at the Station de FEst, by 

 (Trandeau;" culture of lui)ines, by Guilloteaux,-' in which the conclu- 

 sions of Schulze regarding fertilizers and seeding are confirmed; and 

 contributions to the knowledge of cactus and sulla as forage plants, by 

 Bourde.'" 



In botanical horticulture lliviore ^' has given a review of the condi- 

 tion of horticulture in Algeria, where for a long time but little advance 

 was made. Costautin and Matruchot '^ have made some improvements 

 in the culture of mushrooms. 



Attention is called to the movement in France toward the improve- 

 ment of agriculture in her colonies. At the Carthage Congress a reso- 

 lution '^ was adopted favoring the establishment of a school of agriculture 

 in Algeria. Agricultural experts have been sent to study the culture 

 of different crops in various countries, and reports have already been 

 made on the culture of rice in Austria,'^ the culture of cotton in 

 Egypt, •'^ general condition of agriculture at Cape of Good Hope,'" 



'Bui. Soc. Nat. Agr. France, 1896, No. 1, p. .5:{. 

 2Ibi(l.,p.30; Paris: Tempere, 1896. 

 sBul. Miu. Agr. Frauce, 1.5 (1896), p. 563. 

 ^Bul. Sof!. Bot. Franee, 3 (1896), p. 194. 

 6 Jour. Agr., 2 (1896), p. 260. 

 '■•Ihid., p. 793. 



'Bui. Son. Nat. Agr. France, 1896, No. 4, p. 201. 

 Mour. Agr. Prat., 1 (1891), PP- 127, 161. 

 9Bul. Soc. Nat. Agr. Franco, 1896, No. 2, p. 72. 

 '"Brochure Tunis, 1896. 



"Rev. g(!n. sci. pur. et appl., 1896, No. 16, p. 707. 

 '^Bul. Soc. Agr. Frauce, 28 (1896), Suppl. Apr. 1, p. 471. 



'Miul. A.SSOC. Fr. Av. Sci., Cougn-s (!<■ Cartilage, p. 238; Rev. gcu. sci. pur. ot ajtpl., 

 1896, Dec. 



'<Bul. Miu. Agr. France, 1896, p. 171. 

 'sibid., p. 172. 

 '8 Ibid., p. 175. 



