CONTENTS. Ill 



Page. 

 Observations on recent cases of mushroom poisoning in the District of Colum- 

 bia, F. V. Coville 649 



Turnips, F. S. Earle 646 



Report of the assistant in horticulture, J. T. Jordan 649 



Notes on the cherry orchard, W. B. Alwood 646 



Notes on peach culture, J. H. Hale 650 



Notes on the plum orchard, W. 15. Alwood 647 



Japanese plums, F. S. Earle 647 



Prune culture in the Pacific Northwest, E. R. Lake 650 



Strawberry culture, S. Powers 647 



Catalogue of fruits recommended for cultivation in the various sections of the 



United States by the American Pomological Society 648 



Nut culture, H. M. Engle 650 



Experience in fertilizing potted plants with Wagner's solution, W. E. Britton. 648 



Experiments with lawn grasses, B. U. Halsted 651 



FORESTRY. 



Age of trees .and time of blazing determined by annual rings, B. E. Feruow.. 651 

 Recent legislation on State forestry commissions and forest reserves, B. E. 



Fernow 652 



SEEDS — WEEDS. 



The vitality of seed treated with carbon bisulphid, G. H. Hicks and J. C. 



Dabney 652 



On the germination of weeviled leguminous seed, E. Gain 652 



Testing seeds, C. D. "Woods 653 



Work with weeds, B. D. Halsted 653 



Three new weeds of the mustard family, L. H. Dewey 653 



DISEASES OE PLANTS. 



Report of the botanist, B. D. Halsted 653 



Bacteriosis of carnations, A. F. Woods 657 



The Bermuda lily disease, A. F. Woods 658 



Sooty mold of the orange and its treatment, H. J. Webber 658 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Proceedings of the eighth annual meeting of the Association of Economic 



Entomologists 660 



Report of the entomologist, J. B. Smith 664 



Some miscellaneous results of the work of the Division of Entomology, L. O. 



Howard 666 



The ox warble, C. L. Marlatt 674 



The two lined chestnut borer, F. H. Chittenden 674 



The. Buffalo tree hopper, C. L. Marlatt 675 



The San Jose scale and its nearest allies, T. D. A. Cockerell 670 



Distribution of the San Jose scale in Virginia, W. B. Alwood 672 



More about the San Jose scale, C. F. Baker 672 



The pear slug, C. L. Marlatt 673 



The currant fly or gooseberry frit rly, L. F. Harvey 673 



The suppression of insect pests and plant diseases by legislation, B. T. 



Galloway 675 



EOODS— ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Losses in boiling vegetables, H. Snyder 677 



The composition of different parts of the potato and the loss of nutrients dur- 

 ing the process of boiling, A. J. Frisby and A.P.Bryant 678 



The digestibility of potatoes and eggs, H. Snyder 679 



