1916] HORTICULTUEE. 643 



gation of tropical and semitropical fruits, tree planting, orchard management, 

 and the control of the more common diseases and insect pests. A list is given 

 of tropical fruits in the Philippines. 



[Ornamental and economic plants in the Botanic Gardens], C. K. Ban- 

 CKOFT (Rpt. Dcpt. Sci. and Agr. Brit. Guiana, 1914-15, App. 2, pp. S-i2).— Notes 

 are given on ornamental and economic plants of various kinds being grown in 

 the Botanic Gardens, Georgetown, British Guiana. 



Annual report of the experimental work of the Ganeshkhind Botanical 

 Garden (Poona District) for the year 1914-15, W. Burns {Dept. Agr. Bom- 

 bay, Ann. Rpt. Expt. Work Ganeshkhind Bot. Sta. 191^-15, pp. 47). — A progress 

 report on cultural experiments, variety tests, and miscellaneous experiments 

 being conducted with fruits and other economic plants in the Ganeshkhind 

 Botanical Garden. 



In a college garden, Viscountess Wolseley {London: John Murray, 1916, 

 pp. XVII +255, pis. 8). — A popular account of the development and work of the 

 Market Garden School, for women, at Glynde, Sussex. 



A second report on the university farm garden, A. L. Dacy {West Virginia 

 Sta. Bui. 156 {1916), pp. S-22, figs. 5). — In continuation of a previous report 

 (E. S. R., 33, p. 237) the results secured at the university farm garden for the 

 third season are given, together with an average of the results obtained during 

 the three years 1913 to 1915. The average gross annual receipts for the 3-year 

 period from 4.7 acres were $275.48 per acre Among the crops grown three 

 years were celery with an average annual receipt of $533.22 ; eggplant, yielding 

 $462.73; and tomatoes, early and late, yielding $405.66 per acre. Cauliflower, 

 \^hich was grown but two years, gave an annual gross receipt of $433.24 

 per acre. 



A master farmer of seventy who grows truck crops and fruit in southern 

 Jersey, H. R. Cox (Country Gent., 81 {1916), No. 26, pp. 1251, 1252, figs. 5).— 

 In addition to a brief account of operations on a successful fruit and truck farm 

 a table is given containing an analysis of the business of the farm for the fiscal 

 year ended March 1, 1916. One hundred and thirty-three acres of crops grown 

 in that year yielded a labor income of $3,583. 



Onions. — Experiments and culture, T. H. White {Maryland Sta. Bui. 195 

 {1916), pp. 63-78, figs. 3). — This bulletin gives the results of a number of mis- 

 cellaneous experiments with onions conducted over a period of several years, 

 together with directions for onion culture in Maryland. 



In' variety tests Gigantic Gibraltar grew the largest and made the best yield. 

 Prizetaker, White Victoria, and White Globe all yielded well. Hotbed grown 

 plants on the average produced more bushels per acre than either sets or seeds 

 sown outside. Poultry manure at the rate of 5,000 lbs. per acre, supplemented 

 with 98 lbs. of sulphate of potash per acre, gave an increased yield of 36 bu. 

 of onions over the check. A fertilizer containing 2 per cent potash obtained 

 from muriate produced a better yield than a fertilizer containing either 4 or 8 

 per cent potash. Rows of onions planted 30 in. apart for horse cultivation 

 yielded only 85.7 bu. per acre as compared with 130.6 bu. for rows 14 in. apart 

 and cultivated by hand. 



Composition of tomatoes from blighted vines, W. D. Bigelow {Canner, 43 

 {1916), No. 1, p. 30). — The author finds that analyses of half-grown fruit which 

 has ripened on a blighted vine are practically identical with those of half- 

 grown tomatoes picked from a healthy vine. Although not any more injurious 

 to health than a green tomato, prematurely ripened tomatoes are considered to 

 be undesirable for use as canning stock on account of the inferiority of the 

 product made from them. 



