IV CONTENTS. 



HORTICULTURE. 



Page. 



Report of the assistant in horticulture, A. T. Jordan 738 



Horticultural division, F. W. Card and G. E. Adams 740 



The garden book for practical farmers, T. Greiner. 741 



Experiments with nitrate of soda on early beets, T. Brown 741 



Experiment with different forms of nitrogen on nuiskmelons, C. C. Hulsart.. 741 



Experiment with different forms of nitrogen on sweet corn, C. C. Hulsart 742 



Experiment with cabbage in 1899, C. C. Hulsart 742 



Irrigation experiments, E. B. Voorhees 742 



Experiments in the crossing of plants, B. D. Halsted 743 



Experiments in plant hybridization, G. Mendel 744 



The differential value of characters in crossing beans and peas, E. Tschermak. 745 



Onion culture, T. C. Nye 745 



The Bermuda onion, H. W. Brown 745 



The chayote: A tropical vegetable, O. F. Cook 745 



Lessons in pomology from 1899-1900, J. H. Hale 745 



Fruit harvesting, storing, marketing, F. A. Waugh 745 



Experiment in root i)runing, R. Goethe 746 



Root pruned trees in Mexico, H. L. Trott 746 



Self and cross pollination, etc. , R. Goethe - 746 



Fertilizing orchard fruits, A. "Wagner 746 



Subtropical fruits in Florida, A. A. Boggs 746 



Nursery culture of ai)ples, J. P. Andrews 746 



Study of the ripening of apples, R. Otto 746 



Culture of the date palm, G. Schweinfurth 746 



The tig in Asiatic Turkey 746 



The olive in Tunis, N. Minangoin 746 



Observations on olives in Asia Minor, (j. C. Roeding 747 



Pickling ripe and green olives, F. T. Bioletti .- 747 



Nitrate of soda for oranges 749 



Pineapple growing, P. H. Rolfs 749 



Culture of the Queen pineapple, T. Coomber 749 



Manures for tea in Assam, H. H. ]Mann 749 



Culture and preparation of tea, A. Dolabaratz 750 



Instructions for growing tea from seed 750 



Small fruits in 1900, J. P. Pillsbury 750 



The phosphates in strawberry culture 750 



Grapes in Germany, J. C. Whittier 751 



The influence of cross fertilization on the form of the seed, R. Goethe 751 



Manufacture and connnerce of dried raisins in central Tunis, L. Gerardin 751 



Preservation of posts by different methods, C. Seufferheld 751 



Wall and wate* gardens, Gertru<le Jekyll 751 



Lilies and their culture, G. B. INIallett 751 



On the history of the orchid-flowered or Italian cannas, C. Sprenger 751 



The proper use of shrubs, G. C. Butz 751 



Experiments with lawn grasses, B. D. Halsted 751 



Distril)ution of seeds and plants, E. J. Wickson and J. B. Davy 751 



FORESTRY. 



The influence of forests in preventing floods, P. Vessiot 752 



The upper limits of forest vegetation on mountains, C. Flahaut 752 



Important Philippine woods, G. I'. Ahern 752 



The vield of oak high forests, Wimmenauer 753 



The cork oak, E. A. Mijller 753 



Notes on the red cedar, C. Mohr 753 



Plantations of timber trees as a commercial speculation, J. S. Cheesbrough. .. 753 



New means for protecting coniferous seedlings against white grubs, A. Milani. 753 



Turpentine and rosin, W. M. Steuart 753 



The increase of the forest domain of Belgium 754 



Forest fires in Gascony, Millies-Lacroix 754 



The forest, its influence and management, F. W. Card 754 



The treatment and management of forests, L. Boppe 754 



Forest improvement — an outline of lectures, with numerous references, R. Hess . 754 



Experiments in thinning, Schwappach 754 



Review of publications and important events in forestry, etc., for 1900 754 



