HORTICULTURE. 41 



tube or bag extended by a frame of wire netting whicli allows the bag to be put 

 on or taken off the pollinated flower with little danger of injury to the most 

 delicate blossoms. 



Inheritance of habit in the common bean, J. B. Norton (Amer. Nat., 49 

 (1915), No. 585, pp. 547S61). — Data are given on a study of character trans- 

 mission in some third and fourth generation plants of garden beans. A few sec- 

 ond-generation plants of hybrids were also included in the study. 



The author concludes from his observations that the plant habit in beans is 

 largely determined by the presence or absence of axial and terminal inflor- 

 escence, the length of the axis, and the climbing habit, which is due to a factor 

 for circumnutation. The cause of the various degrees of the climbing habit has 

 not been determined with any degree of certainty. The contorted stems of erect 

 bush forms are probably caused by the factor for circumnutation. 



A short bibliography of cited literature is given. 



Cantaloup growing- in North Carolina, R. G. Hill (Bui, N. C. Dept. Agr., 

 S6 (1915), No. 8, pp. 23, figs. iO).— This bulletin embraces the results of experi- 

 mental trials made with cantaloups on the Pender test farm and of observa- 

 tions on the conditions of culture and marketing of this crop throughout the 

 commercial cantaloup regions of the State. 



On the genetics of " rogues " among culinary peas (Pisum sativum), W. 

 Bateson and Caroline Pei.lew (Jour. Genetics, 5 (1915), No. 1, pp. 13S6, 

 pis. 6). — ^A progi'ess report on a study of the genetic relations of rogues to the 

 typical varieties from which they come. 



The authors' experience with three varieties is summarized in brief as fol- 

 lows : Thoroughly typical plants do occasionally throw rogues and certain inter- 

 mediate forms ; the rogues of whatever origin when fertile have offspring exclu- 

 sively rogues; intermediates raised from types showing combinations of type 

 and rogue characters give mixed families of various compositions ; and crosses 

 between types and rogues, however made, have practically always given rogues, 

 though these in their juvenile condition are generally type-like. These rogues 

 have always given only rogues. 



Investigations on the culture of Daikons, Miss Trouard Riolle (Ann. Ecole 

 Nat. Agr. Grignon, 4 (1913), pp. 24-33, figs. 5). — A paper on the cultivation of 

 Japanese radishes, based on the author's works with cultivated radishes re- 

 ported on in full (E. S. R., 33, p. 638). 



Distribution of starch in some Chinese radishes. Miss Trouard Riolle 

 (Ann. Ecole Nat. Agr. Grignon, 4 (1913), pp. 34-31, figs. 3). — This paper is 

 based on the author's work with radishes, which has been reported on in full 

 (E. S. R., 33, p. 638). 



Onion culture, J. W. Wellington (New York State Sta. Circ. 40 (1915), pp. 

 6). — A popular treatise discussing climate, soils, drainage, crop rotation, prepara- 

 tion, fertilizers, propagation, onion sets, seed, treatment of seed, planting, 

 cultivation, thinning, disease and insect troubles, harvesting, storage, types, and 

 selected varieties. 



Rhubarb culture, C. C. Caestens (Neto York State Sta. Circ. 88 (1915), 

 pp. 4)- — A treatise similar to the above. 



Culture of sweet corn, J. W. Wellington (Neio York State Sta. Circ. 29 

 (1914), PP- 3). — A treatise similar to the above. 



Sweet corn, A. E. Wilkinson (New York: Orange Judd Co., 1915, pp. YII+ 

 203, figs. 20). — Part 1 of this work comprises a concise treatise on the culture 

 of sweet corn for home use ; part 2 consists of a similar treatise on commercial 

 culture and marketing of green sweet corn ; and pai't 3 deals with the raising 

 of sweet corn for canning, including information relative to the processes of 



