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[Cacao, coffee, tea, and rubber in Uganda], S. Simpson and T. D. Maitland 

 (Ann. Rpt. Dept. Agr. Uganda, 1918, pp. 10--12, 17-23, 26, 29, 30, 33-^6, 56-60).— 

 Notes are given on cultural and variety tests, including also tapping experi- 

 ments with rubber, conducted in the Botanic Gardens at Entebbe and on 

 various government plantations and estates. 



Cultivation of the Robusta types of coffee, H. A. Deutbom {Dept. Agr. 

 Ceylon, Leaflet 10 (1918), pp. 6, pis. 2). — Practical suggestions are given on the 

 culture of a number of varieties of coffee of the Robusta type that have been 

 tested by the direction of the Ceylon Department of Agricidture. 



Pruning experiments with young tea, E. A. Andrews {Indian Tea Assoc., 

 Hci. Dept. Quart. Jour., No. Jf {1918), pp. 129-132, pi. 1). — Data are given for the 

 season 1917-18 of pruning experiments conducted at the Tocklai Experiment 

 Station, Assam, with three varieties of tea. 



Report of chief gardener, H. J. Moore {Ann. Rpt. Comrs. Queen Victoria 

 Xiagara Falls Park, 32 {1917), pp. 2^-29, pi. 1). — A general report on ornamental 

 planting operations in the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park System, including 

 descriptive notes on varieties of hardy and semihardy primulas, all of which 

 have l)een tested in tlie park for at least two seasons. 



[Delphiniums, myosotis, and annual poppies at Wisley, 1917] {Jour. Roy. 

 Hort. Soc, 43 {1919), No. 2-3, pp. 462-487). — Descriptions are given of varieties 

 tested at Wisley during 1917, including selected lists of meritorious varieties. 



The history of Ananas and Agave, S. Killer mann {Naturw. Wchnschr., SS 

 {1918), No. 35, pp. 4^7-503, figs. 3). — A historical review of these genera, includ- 

 ing references to cited literature. 



The dahlia {Missouri Bat. Gard. Bui., 7 {1919), No. 4, pp. 41-46, pis. 2).— Cul- 

 tural notes on the dalilia, including a list of some of the best varieties for deco- 

 ration and cutting which wei-e grown at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1918. 



The American rose annual, edited by J. H. McFaeland {Harrisburg, Pa.: 

 Amer. Rose Soc, 1919, pp. 184, P^s. 11, figs. 5). — As in previous editions (E. S. 

 R., 39, p. 244) the annual for 1919 contains a report of the activities of the 

 American Rose Society for 1918, notes progress on breeding and varietj' testing 

 and other phases of rose growing, and contains numerous miscellaneous arti- 

 cles on roses and rose growing in various countries. The partial list of roses 

 introduced in America is revised to March 10, 1919. 



New pillar rose, W. Van Fleet {Jour. Heredity, 10 {1919), No. 3, pp. 136- 

 138, figs. 2). — The author describes and illustrates a rose seedling developed at 

 the Bell Experiment I'hit, Glendale, Md., which gives great promise as a new 

 hardy pillar or low-climbing rose. The seedling, which bears pure white blos- 

 soms with prominent yellow stamens, is a result of applying pollen of a vigor- 

 ous hybrid between the new Chinese Rosa soulieana and R. svtigera, the wild 

 ]\Iichigan or Prairie rose, to the stigmas of an unusually hardy seedling of R. 

 xciclmraiana that had the Tea rose Devoniensis as its pollen parent. 



Mildew- resistant roses; with some suggestions as to increasing their num- 

 ber, W. Easlea {Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc, 43 {1919), No. 2-3, pp. 253-260).— The 

 author points out what various h.vbridists have already done toward breeding 

 mildew-resistant roses, suggests lines of attack which might result in increasing 

 the number of resistant varieties, and appends a list of roses which have 

 proved to be more or less mildew-resisting. 



Hardy trees, shrubs, and flowers for Wisconsin homes, F. A. Aust {Univ. 

 Wis. Agr. Ext. Sere. Circ 112 {191!)), pp. 15, figs. 6). — Suggestions anil plans 

 for laying out and planting the home grounds, including lists of trees, shrubs, 

 and flowers. 



