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HORTICULTURE. 



[Report on horticultural investigations], B. Aune {U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur 

 Plant Indus., Work Belle Fourche Expt. Farm, 19U, pp. 14, 15).— A variety 

 list is given of orchard and small fruits and ornamental trees and shrubs 

 planted on the Belle Fourche Experiment Farm in 1914, together with a brief 

 note on the condition of trees and shrubs previously planted. 



Onions, R. W. Jordan (St. Paul, 3Iin7i.: Webb Publishing Co., 1915, pp. 95, 

 figs. 41).—A practical treatise on onion culture which discusses the onion with 

 reference to its history, botany, importance, climatic and soil requirements, 

 varieties, importance of good seed, fertilizers preparation of seed bed and seed 

 planting, different types of onion growing, care and management of the crop, 

 harvesting storing marketing yield and cost of growing and onion pests. 



Onion cultivation, F. Watts (hnp. Dept. Agr. West Indies Pamphlet 78 

 (1915), pp. 30).— A concise treatise on the growing, harvesting, and marketing 

 of onions. 



Some tests of tomatoes, L. B. Uichanco {Philippine Agr. and Forester, 4 

 (1915), No. 3, pp. 59-68, 70-80). — An account is given of tomato growing in the 

 Philippine Islands, including a discussion of insect pests and diseases, and 

 data on variety, pruning, training, fertilizer, irrigation, and transplanting 

 tests. 



A bibliography on tomatoes and tomato culture is appended. 



Rail sMpments and distribution of fresh tomatoes, 1914, W. A. Sherman, 

 P. Fkoehlich, and H. F, Walker (U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 290 (1915), pp. 12, 

 pi. 1, fig. 1 ) . — In this bulletin an effort has been made to list largely by railroad 

 stations the actual shipments of tomatoes for table use in 1914, the returns 

 being incomplete in some cases owing to the failure to receive reports from 

 certain shipping agents. In addition to tabular data for the various States, 

 the data are also presented in the form of a map and charts, all of the areas 

 shipping at a given period being grouped in a zone and thus showing the 

 various competing areas as well as the dates of heaviest crop movement. 



The total reported shipments of table stock for 1914 was 11,995 carloads, 

 nearly one-half of the entire crop being shipped from the State of Florida. 

 The States next in importance are Mississippi, New Jersey, and Texas, each 

 shipping from 1,100 to 1,500 cars. It has been estimated that a somewhat 

 greater number of tomatoes is grown for canneries, catsup factories, etc., than 

 for table use. 



Pruning (Oregon Sta. Bui. 130 (1915), pp. 72, figs. 58).— This bulletin is 

 comprised of five separate articles, as follows : Plant Physiology as Related to 

 Pruning, by W. M. Atwood (pp. 4-11), in M^hich the author calls attention to 

 the various conditions which surround the tree and which are often sufficiently 

 effective to modify or do away entirely with the beneficial effects of thorough 

 pruning practiced without regard to the other conditions; The Study of Fruit 

 Buds, by E. J. Kraus (pp. 12-21), in which a discussion is given of the nature 

 of fruit-bud development and location of buds on different classes of orchard 

 trees, and a table is included showing the relation of position of bloom to 

 bearing in the commoner varieties of Oregon apples and pears ; Pruning 

 Young Trees, by C. I. Lewis (pp. 22-47), in which consideration is given to 

 the principles of pruning and their application to young nonbearing and bear- 

 ing trees of various orchard fruits ; and Pruning the Bearing Apple and Pear 

 Tree (pp. 48-60) and Pruning the Bearing Prune Tree (pp. 61-72), both by 

 V. R. Gardner. 



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