CONTENTS. Ill 



I'age. 



Grasses and legumes, C. 8. Phelps 432 



Forage and pasture plants of Iceland, S. StetVuisson and H. G. Soderbauni 432 



Cooperative fertilizer tests with grasses and Held crops 432 



< irass mixtures for hay and })asture 433 



Some Australian veiietahle fibers, J. H. Maiden 433 



Alfalfa, R. L. Bennett 433 



Alfalfa for Maryland, W. T. L. Taliaferro . 433 



Alfalfa, Trabut' 433 



Experiments with l)arley in lil02, L. Grandeau 433 



Tests with malting barley 433 



Buckwheat culture at high altitudes, H. P. Weber 433 



Carrots as a forage i-rop, F. I.ubanski 433 



Red and striped mai ze, 1 1 . Stewart 433 



Cotton culture in Senegal, Ponty 433 



Cotton culture in Asia Minor, Y. Henry 433 



The cultivation of flax on the Dugin estate 433 



Experiments with lupines, vetches, and peas for green manuring, 0. Pitsch . . 433 



Increasing the yiekl of mangels, A. Arnstadt 434 



Marram grass 434 



Marram grass, A . Molineaux 434 



Experiments with oats in 1902, L. Grandeau 434 



Experiments with different phosphates for oats, H. G. Soderbauni 434 



Influence of different temjieratures on the growth of roots, A. Tolsky 434 



Methods of plant l)reeding, A. Kirsche " 434 



Relation of composition and anatomical chai'acter to value of potato tubers, F. 



Watei-stradt and M. Willner 434 



Electro-culture of crops 435 



Experiments in storing potatoes, O. Appel 435 



Rei>ort on ramie, E. Dazey 435 



Rice cleaning and j)olishing, D. C. Roper 435 



Rational fertilization of soil seeded to winter rye, S. Bogdanov 435 



Notes on sugar-beet culture 435 



Sugar cane I'eport, season 1901, H. J. Blyth 435 



Sweet potato experiments, C. L. Newman 435 



Fertilizers for tobacco, B. W. Kilgore 436 



Manufactures of tobacco, J. H. Garl)er 436 



\lcia auf/nstifolia alUoni, L. Wittmack 436 



The assimilation of plant food by- wheat, J. Adorjan 436 



Report of the wheat experimentalist, W. Farrer 437 



HORTICULTURE. 



Cantaloupe culture in (ieorgia, S. H. Fulton 437 



The effects of colored light, L. C. Corbett 437 



A new edible tuber, Colcnx coppin i, ¥,. Meckel 437 



Water cress in Erfurt, R. Fngelhardt 438 



J]xperiments in mulching vegetables, R. A. Emerson 438 



The value of chemical manures, F. W. E. Shrivell 438 



Report on experiments in fruit and vegetable drying, 1901, J. Udale 438 



The effect of hydrocyanic-acid gas on fresh fruit, H. Schmidt 438 



Fruit growing in New England and its development, A. Low 438 



Experiments in orchard culture, C. G. Marshall 438 



Orchard cover crops 439 



Stringfellow method of planting 439 



Locating orchards in Washington, S. ^V. Fletcher 439 



Planting orchards in ^^'aMhington, S. W. Fletcher 439 



Nursery stock for Washington orchards, S. W. Fletcher 439 



The commercial apple area, W. A. Taylor 439 



Apple growing, ijollination, and time of l)loom, Maskew 440 



Comparing keeping (jualities of apples, S. A. Beach 440 



Apple and pear hybrid 440 



Varieties of apples and peaches, J . T. Stinson 440 



The Peen-to peach grou]), H. H. Hume 440 



Orchard results from the sugar ])rune, C. W. Reed 440 



Olives, G. E. Colby and F. T. Bioletti 441 



The olive; its culture, oil, and adulteration, L. Cabrie 441 



Cultivation, enemies, and connnerce of citrus fruits, G. del Viscio 441 



