IV CONTENTS. 



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[Seed analysis, inoculation, spraying experiments, and grain breeding], Stebler. 239 



Some analyses of seeds, Gassner 240 



Impurities of grass and clover seed sold in Virginia, DeLoach et al 240 



Trials with spraying machines for iron sulphate solutions, 1909, Birk and Dall . 240 



References to recent work in plant breeding, Fru wirth 240 



HORTICULTURE. 



Report of the horticulturist, Higgins 240 



Report of professor of horticulture, Shaw 241 



Bean growing, Raven 241 



Nursery stock and soils pertaining to the production of types and sizes, Wilson. 241 



Fertilizer experiments with tomatoes, Weydahl 241 



German fruit culture, Goethe, Ihne, et al 241 



The cold storage of apples and other fruits, Ruddick 242 



Apple growing in New England. Ill, Planting the apple orchard, Jarvis... 242 



Apple culture. Close 242 



Olive culture in Algeria, Vivet 242 



Plum varieties, Little 242 



Plum varieties. Little 242 



Strawberry cultivation 242 



Handbook of grape growing and wine making, von Babo and Mach 242 



Summer pruning, Chappaz 242 



Coffee plantations of Tonkin, Cramer 243 



The tea plats at the experiment station, Peradeniya 243 



The kola nut tree in French Guinea, Leroide 243 



Pistachio culture, Brichet 243 



The garden primer, Tabor and Teall 243 



Propagation and pruning of ornamental plants, Olbrich 243 



Some beautiful flowering trees of the Tropics, Macmillan 243 



FORESTRY. 



Report on forest conditions in central and western Kansas, Dickens 243 



Report of the minister of lands and forests of Quebec for 1909, AUard 244 



Proceedings of the division of forestry of the Royal Prussian Ministry, 1908. . 244 



Review of forest conditions in 1908, Semper 244 



Forest taxation in Germany, Arnoul 244 



Forest conditions in Baden, Philipp 244 



Proceedings of the Bavarian State Forest Administration 244 



Some features of Bavarian forestry, Forbes 244 



Report of the forestry bureau of Norway, 1908, Saxlund 244 



Reports on the forest administration in Burma for the year 1908-9 245 



The plateau of the San Francisco peaks in its effect on tree life, Lowell 245 



Studies in Norway, Perrin 245 



[The Russian timber industry], Snodgrass — 245 



The coastal forests of Cameroon, Biisgen 245 



Soil changes effected by afforesting impoverished farm lands, Fricke 245 



Sowing or planting? Frijmbling 245 



[Tree planting and maintenance after planting] , Herrington 215 



The vitality of pine seed in serotinous cones, Blumer 245 



The black jjoplar ( Pupulus nigra), Skalosubow - - - - 246 



The landolphias and the rubber-yielding mascarenhasias, Jumelle and Perrier. 246 



Risks, mistakes, and improvements in rubber production of Asia, Sandmann. 246 



Analytical investigation of the conception of wood hardness, von Lorenz 246 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Report of the mycologist, 1907-1909, Butler and McRae 246 



Report on economic mycology, Salmon 247 



Diseases of cultivated plants for 1906-1908, Hauman-Merck and Devoto 247 



Notes on plant pathology, Pollock 247 



Some Alabama plant diseases, Lloyd, Ridgway, and Chatterton 247 



Contribution to the fungus flora of middle Russia, Potebnia 247 



Researches on the loose smut of grains, Appel and Riehm 247 



A bacterial disease of alfalfa caused by Pseudomonas medicaginis n. sp., Sackett. 247 



