IV CONTENTS. [Vol.38 



HORTICULTURE. 



Page. 



Saving vegetable seeds for the home and market garden, Tracy, sr 241 



Diseases and insect enemies of home vegetable garden, Orton and Chittenden. 241 



[Experiments with vegetables] 241 



Home storage of vegetables, Beattie 241 



First generation crosses in cucumbers, Hayes and Jones 241 



Melon growing in Indiana, Reed 241 



Effects of cross- and self-fertilization in tomatoes, Hayes and Jones 241 



Orchard work on Mount Carmel Experiment Farm 1911 to 1916, Stoddard 242 



Irrigation of orchards, Fortier 242 



Experiments in the irrigation of apple orchards, Taylor and Downing 242 



Results from orchard fertilization 244 



The planting and care of the young apple orchard , Reed 245 



Seed production in apples, Crandall 245 



The packing of apples in California, Tufts 246 



Peach growing in Indiana, Oskamp 246 



Strawberry varieties and cultural hints, Oskamp 246 



Varieties of blackberries and raspberries with notes on their care, Oskamp. . . . 246 



Mint growing in northern Indiana, Sayre 246 



FORESTRY. 



[Report of the forestry section] 246 



Report of the forester for 1916 246 



Report of committee on forests, Leavitt 246 



Forest administration in British India for the year 1915-16 247 



State forestry report for the year ended March 31, 1917, Brodrick et al 247 



A forest survey of the town of Redding, Conn., Moss 247 



New Philippine shrubs and trees, Merrill 1 247 



Silvicultural notes on forest trees of Queensland 247 



The forests and woods of Gabon, Chevaher 247 



Notes on the timbers of Lukolela and of Eala, Leplae 247 



A note on tliitsi, Mdanorrhcea usitata, Benskin and Rodger 247 



Influence of thinning out Hevea fields on the rubber yield per acre, Arens 247 



Cubage of a sample plat in virgin forest of Yangambi, central Kongo, Leplae. . 248 



A new dendrometer, Bruce 248 



Emergency fuel from the farm woodland, Hawes 248 



The substitution of other materials for wood, XI, Thelen 248 



Tanning materials from native sources in Latin-American countries, Norton. . . 248 



Dyestuffs from materials native to Latin-American countries, Sadtler 248 



Seasoning of wood , Wagner 248 



The preservation of shingles 248 



Zinc chlorid as a preservative of structural timber, Spoff ord 248 



Practical processes for prolonging the life of mill roofs, Teesdale 249 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Department of botany, Osmun 249 



The production of spores by Alternaria solani in pure culture. Rands 249 



Puccinia suhnitens and its secial hosts, Bethel 249 



Note on Xylaria polyviorpha and X. digitoM, Weir 249 



Grain smuts, Swingle 249 



Distribution of the bacterial disease of western wheat grass, O 'Gara 249 



A bean disease introduced in diseased seeds, Garman 249 



Factors affecting the parasitism of Ustilago zex, Piemeisel 249 



The occurrence of Colletolrichum solanicohnn on eggplant, O 'Gara 250 



Sdcrotium balaticola, the cause of a fruit rot of peppers, Martin 250 



The pathogenic action of Rhizoctonia on potato, Giissow 250 



Potato diseases in Indiana, Jackson and Osner 250 



Bacillus viorulans n. sp., found associated with curly top, Boncquet 250 



Lightning injury to sugar cane, Stevenson 250 



Studies on Bacteriuvi solanaccarum, Stanford and Wolf 250 



Buckeye rot of tomato fruit, Sherbakoff 251 



Phytophthora infestans, causing damping-off of tomatoes, Howitt 251 



Apple scab on the tAvigs, Cook and Schwarze 251 



BUster spot of apples and its relation to a disease of apple bark. Rose 251 



Apple diseases in Indiana, with spray schedule, Jackson 251 



A new leaf spot disease of cherries, Rudolph 251 



