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Handling applea for storage, Young 141 



Preparation of fruit exhibits, Baruott 141 



Experiments with small fruits, Ballard 141 



Management of strawberry soils in the Pajaro Valley, Lipman 141 



Vine pruning in California, II, Bioletti 142 



Origin of the date palm, Popenoe 142 



Mate culture, Girola 142 



Olive culture, Allen 142 



Further notes on the seedless fruits of the common persimmon, Mottier 142 



Vanilla culture in Madagascar, Fauchere 142 



Recent experiments in shield budding tropical fruits, WeSter 142 



The improvement of medicinal plants, Miller 143 



Goldenseal under cultivation. Van Fleet 143 



Dreer's hints on the growing of bulbs 143 



The daffodil yearbook, 1914 143 



Practical h<dp on landscape gardening. Miller 143 



Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries, edited by Whitson and Williams . 143 



FORESTRY. 



The timbers of British Guiana _ 144 



Trees, shrubs, and economic herbs of the Southern Forest Circle, Haines 144 



Ecology of sal {Shorea robusta), I, Hole and Singh 144 



Studies on color variation in black pine seed, Pittauer 144 



Spectrophotometric investigations in woods, Knuchel 144 



Annual ring formation and light, Oelkers ]44 



Investigations in mixed stands, Schwappach 144 



Size and disposition of normal growing stock in seedling forests, Flury 144 



Report of the state forest administration of Bavaria 144 



Forest products of Canada, 1913. — Pulp wood, Lewis and Boyce 144 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



[Report on plant production in Baden, 19] 3], von Wahl and Miiller. 145 



Fungi parasitic on plants in and near the Province of Tiu-in, 1912, VogLino. . . . 145 



Culture studies with Uredinse, 1911-1913, Tranzschel 145 



[The stem rot of cereals], Mangin 145 



Grain rusts and their control, Riehm 145 



Barley streak disease, MiJller and Molz 145 



Stinking smut in wheat, Woolman 145 



A new disease of asparagus, Voglino _ 146 



A fungus disease of hemp, Charles and Jenkins 146 



Smut in Kafir corn, Evans 146 



Some diseases of the potato. — II, Black dot disease, Doidge 146 



Potato scab and sulphur disinfection, Sherbakoff 146 



Powdery scab of the potato, Gorham 147 



The Rhizoctonia disease of potatoes, Morse and Shapovalov 147 



A ncAV disease of spinach, Voglino 147 



Tomato diseases, Norton 147 



Development of Cladosporium fulvum violaceum, Savelli 148 



A bacterial soft rot of turnips, Harrison and Sadler 148 



A bacterial disease of fruit blossom. Barker and Grove 148 



The brown rot canker of the apple, Salmon 148 



Outbreak of downy mildew in 1913, Capus 149 



Combined treatment for downy mildew, Zacharewicz 149 



Node canker in grapevines, Maire and Trabut 149 



Root rot of grape, Brunet 149 



A preliminary report on raspbeny curl or yellows, Melchers. 149 



A variety of Cladosporium parasitic on A.gave and Echeveria, Savelli 149 



The bud rot of coconut palms in Malabar, Shaw and Sundararaman 150 



A new Rhizospha;ra, Bubak 150 



A leaf disease of walnuts, Wolf 150 



Heart rot of oaks and poplars from Polypoms dryophilus, Hedgcock and Long. . 150 



Oak Oidium. Foex 150 



Peculiarities of outbreak of oak Oidium, Noffray ... 150 



Resistance of oak wood to dry rot in relation to tannic acid, Wehmer 150 



Further germination studies 'with spores of Merulius, Wehmer 150 



