jV ' CONTENTS. 



SEED!-; — WEEDS. 



The o-ermination of seed as affected Ijy sunlight, V. Jodin 577 



01)servations on tlie duration of the gerniinative property of seeds, J. Poisson. 577 



The preservation of tiie gerniinative power of seeds, L. Maqnenne 577 



Rei)ort of the section of seed control, A. Voigt . - 577 



Report of the seed control station at Hernosand, C. (t. Strokirk 578 



Report of the seed control station at Lulea, 1 900-1901, P. Hellstruni 578 



Reixirt of the seed control station at Molkom, 1901 , J. A. Andersson 578 



A studv of dodders, B. D. Halsted 578 



Experiments with weeds, B. D. Halsted 578 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Report of the botanist, B. T). Halsted 578 



riant diseases observed during 1901, E. Marchal 579 



A report on cotton disease in Egypt, F. Fletcher 579 



A disease of potato stems in Ohio, due to Rhizoctonia, A. D. Selby 580 



bljservations on the foot disease of wheat, L. Mangin 580 



Hot water treatment of oats and wheat for smut prevention, H. Rommetin . . 580 



Bacteria! soft rot of cruciferous plants, H. A. Harding and F. C. Stewart. 580 



New' organism producing rot in cauliflower and allied plants, F. C. Harrison . 581 



Club root of cabbage, L. ^Vlangin - 581 



The banana disease, G. P. Foaden 581 



Bitter rot of apples, T. J. Burrill and J. C. Blair 581 



Pear blight in California, X. B. Pierce 582 



Notes on canker and black rot, P. J. O'Gara 582 



The gray rot of grapes, R. Roger 582 



Diseases of the hardy catalpa, H. von Schrenk 583 



Notes on some diseases of western conifers, H. von Schrenk 583 



Prevalence of Alternaria during drought of 1901, G. G. Hedgcock 583 



Sderotlniaj'rnctigena, J. B. S. Norton 583 



Ararhiiidfiis trarlnjapcrmuti, a new species of the Gymnoascace;e, C. L. Shear.. 583 



The finding of I'nccitiid j)lira<j)nitin in Nebraska, J. M. Bates 583 



Nortli American Ustilaginefe, G. P. Clinton ._. 583 



Notes on some west American fungi, P. L. Ricker 584 



Plant pathological stations in northern Europe, E. Marchal 584 



ENTOMOLOCiY. 



Fourteenth annual meeting of the Association of P]conomic Entomologists 584 



Report of the entomologist, J. B. Smith 586 



Report of the botanist and entomologist, G. W. Herrick 587 



Winds and storms as agents in the diffusion of insects, F. ISI. Webster 587 



Flowers and insects in New Mexico, T. D. A. Cockerel! 587 



Injurious insects, E. Fleutiaux 587 



Injurious insects observed in Ireland during the year 1901, G. H. Carpenter . . 587 



Insects injurious to fruit and vegetables, H. T. Fernald 587 



Inspection of fruits and plants; orchard notes for August, G. Quinn 587 



Insects injurious to fruit trees, H. Faes 587 



Suggestions for controlling importation of insect pests, H. Maxwell-Lefroy 587 



Certain leaf-eating caterpillars of the sugar cane, W. van Deventer 588 



Cane borer [iJiatrnn mccliavdlix), W. C. Stubbs and H. A. Morgan 588 



The turnip sawflv and injuries caused bv it in vicinity of Paris, P. Marchal 588 



The fruit fly, J. Lindsay '. 589 



Winter treatment of the San Jose scale, W. M. Scott and W. F. Fiske 589 



The codling moth, G. t^iinn 590 



Spraying tests for the codling moth, G. Quinn 590 



The 'peach worm, W. T. Clarke 590 



Inse(;ts of the wattle trees, W. W. Froggatt 591 



The effect of Aphrophora salicix on willows, A. Jacobi 591 



Felted l)eech coccus 591 



Hydrocyanic-acid gas in greenhouses, H. C. Price 591 



Fumigation under bo.x covers, C. P. Lounsbury 591 



Ortel's traps for (matching locusts, R. de Saint-Foix 592 



Alphabetical index to North American Ortho|)tera, S. H. Scudder 592 



The salt-marsh moscjuito ( (_'uk.r laoUicUans), J. B. Smith 592 



