294 



"' Many strains of the Snowball have been sent out that are very 

 inferior to that disseminated by Peter Henderson & Co." 



PUGET SOIND CABBAGE ANP CAILIFLOAVER SEED, W. J. GrEEN (p. 



185).^The author states that the Puget Sound seeds have a high 

 gerniinative ]iower and that the plants grown from them are at first 

 much more vigorous than those grown from Eastern seed, but this 

 difference diminishes as the season advances, and the crops are sub- 

 stantially the same in time of maturing, quality, and quantity. The 

 superior vitality and vigor of the plants from Puget Sound seeds 

 enable them to better resist insect enemies and diseases, and if suffi- 

 cient care i.^ exercised in growing stock from these seeds they may, 

 perhaps, " become recognized as the best in the market." 



XoTES on EXBERTMENTS A\'lTFr REMEDIES FOR CERTAIN PLANT DIS- 

 EASES, C. M. Weed, M. S. (pp. 18G-189), (illustrated).— The impor- 

 tance of combining insectides and fungicides is explained, and claim 

 is made that this practice originated at this Station. Successful 

 experiments with the Bordeaux mixture for black rot of grapes and 

 quince-leaf spot are reported, as well as a partially successful experi- 

 ment with London purple and the Bordeaux mixture on the brown 

 rot of stone fruits, and an nnsuccessful experiment >vith the Bor- 

 deaux mixture for apple scab. 



BULLETIN Vol. II, No. 8 (SECOND SERIES), DECEMBER, 1889. 



Eighth annual report for 1880 (pp. T-54). — This includes the 

 rej^orts of the board of control, bursar, director, agriculturist, hor- 

 ticulturist, entomologist and botanist, veterinarian and bacteriolo- 

 gist, and meteorologist, and "" the insect record for 1889." , The 

 reports consist for the most part of lirief outlines and condensed 

 summaries of the work of the year. A table of contents for the 

 bulletins of 1880 is given in an appendix, and brief synopses of them 

 are contained in the director's report. There is also an index to the 

 publications of the year. This report will receive more complete 

 notice in the Digest of Aniuud Reports of the Stations for 1889. 



OREGON. 



Oregon Experiment Station. 



Drixirtniciif of Orcfioii Shitr Af/rii'iiJt iiral C'/llci/c 

 Location. C(tvv:illis. Director, E. Grimm, B. S. 



BT'LLETIN No. :i, OCTOBER, 1889. 



Practical work with insecticides, E. R. Lake, M. S. (pp. 3-0). — • 

 A brief account of the treatment of " fifteen apple trees and three 

 pear trees with London purple for the codling moth, twenty apple 

 trees with kerosene emulsion for the woolly aphis, and several green- 

 house plants with the same emulsion and tobacco water for the green 

 aphis." The woolly aphis {Schisoneura Janigei^a) Avas treated with 



