CONTENTS. V 



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Plant ] iropagation, W. L. Howard 870 



Outline of greenhouse laboratory work, S. B. Green and E. S. Mackintosh 870 



l)istril)ution of seeds and plants, E. J. Wiekson 870 



Tropical plants of commercial importance, E. de Wildeman 870 



Studies on some essences of the French colonies, E. Charabot 871 



Forcing lilacs, J. Yillebenoist 871 



Ether and chloroform in forcing , 871 



Roses for English gardens, Gertrude Jekyll and E. Mawlej' 871 



Gardens old and new — the conntry house and its garden environment 871 



FOEESTKY. 



Relation of forestry to public health, W. H. Brewer 871 



Relation of forestry to the farmer, H. C. Price 871 



Outlook of the timber supply in the United States, B. E. Fernow 871 



New forest reserves 872 



Natural rej^roduction in the Adirondack forests, A. Knechtel 872 



The forests of JMaine, B. K. Ring 872 



Annual report of the forest administration in South Australia, W. Gill 872 



Forest administration of Central Provinces, A. Smythies and J. A. McKee... 872 



Report on forest administration in Lower Provinces of Bengal, A. E. Wild... 872 



A hard}' American forest tree, J. P. Brown 873 



The Norway spruce in Iowa, L. H. Pammel 873 



Trees for shade, ornament, and roadside planting, \V. R. Lazenliy 873 



How to grow a forest from seed, F. W. Rane 873 



Collecting jack-pine seed, E. X. Sterling 874 



A new nicthi id of turpentine orcharding, G. Pinchot 874 



The distrilnition of jtlants iri forest regions, W. ]\I. Munson 874 



Trees and shrubs as sand binders, K. Sajo 874 



The fixation of shifting sands, J. Gifford 874 



Instruction in forestry in Switzerland, A. K. ]Myhrvol( I 874 



SEEDS WEEDS. 



The principles of plant production; the seed, F. B. Mumford 874 



The effect of alcohol on the germination of some seeds, L. Sukatscheff 874 



Protein 1 todies of various oil-l)earing seeds, B. Gram 874 



Some frauds in the seed tnide, D. Vidal 875 



Report of Goteborg and Bohus Seed Control Station, 1902, J. E. Alen 875 



Report of the Seed Control Station, Christiania, 1901, Anna Steen 875 



The seeds of rescue grass and chess, F. H. Ilillman 875 



The Canada thistle, S. Lund and E. Rostrup 875 



DISEASES OF FLAXTS. 



Potato spraying in 1902, F. C. Stewart, H. J. Eustace, and F. A. Sirrine 875 



Notes on the bacterial disease of potato, G. Battanchon 876 



Sugar cane diseases, J. B. Harrison 876 



Contributions from the bacteriological laboratorv, New South ^^^ales, R. G. 



Smith .' 876 



A form of corn smut, G. Mottareale 877 



Influence of time of sowing on occurrence of loose smut of oats, F. K. Ravn.. 877 



Oat smut and its prevention, C. D. Woods 877 



Uredineous infection experiments in 1902, W. A. Kellerman 877 



A rice disease, T. Kawakami 877 



A nematode disease of rice, J. van Breda de Haan 877 



Relation between species of Pleospora and Ilelminthosporium, H. Diedicke.. 877 



Effect of mineral starvation on parasitism of J'nccitria dispersa, H. M. Ward . . 878 



The club root of cabliage, L. INIangin 878 , 



Studies on P/di^ntodiopliora hrasslai', Feinberg i 878 



Bacilhts siiJitilis and B. vulgalus as plant parasites, C. J. J. van Hall 878 



Asparagus rust, J. Isaac 879 



A mushroom disease, G. T. IMalthouse 879 



Susceptibility of apples to scab and relation of weather to same, R. Aderhold. 879 



The leaf-curl disease of the peach and its treatment, AV. M. Scott 879 



The ]iear blight in California, J. Isaac 879 



Studies on plum blight, L. R. Jones 880 



