rV CONTENTS. [Vol. 41 



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Cover crops in the peach orchard, McCue 444 



The culture of peach trees in the German climate, Rudolph 445 



Relation of weatlier to fruitfulness in the plum, Dorsey 445 



Tests with unfi-uitful plum trees, Esam 445 



Varieties of gooseberries, currants, and black currants, Esbjerg 445 



A commercially new blueberry, Murrell 445 



Manual of American gi-ape growing, Hedrick 446 



The future of the hybrid direct bearers, Pee-Laby 44G 



Medlar tree flower and origin of the stoneless medlar in Italy, Pierpaoli 446 



Olive culture in Argentina, Vallejo 446 



Avocados, particularly Guatemalans, Popenoe 446 



[Stocks for citrus trees], Davis 446 



Fertilization of citrus groves with high-priced fertilizers, Prizer 447 



Past and new practices in growing coconuts, van der Wolk 447 



Contribution to the study of tea in Indo-China, Eberhardt and Aufray 447 



Abnormal growth of scion in relation to stock in almonds, Passerini 447 



The butternut and the Japan walnut, Bixby 447 



Smith's chrysanthemum manual, Smith 448 



Progress in breeding freesias, Van Fleet 448 



Spring-flowering stocks tried at Wisley, 1916-17 448 



Color in my garden, Wilder 448 



Report of the botanist, Dunbar 448 



Winter injury to ornamental trees and shrubs. Buck 448 



FOBESTET. 



Lumber export and our forests. Graves 448 



Firewoods: Their production and fuel values, Webster 449 



Germination trials with Hevea seed, Maas 449 



Wound curing and healing with Hevea trees, Keuchenius 449 



Report of forest administration in Baluchistan, Muhammed Afzal 449 



Forest administration in Ajmer-Merwara, Shambhoo Datt Joshi 449 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Plant pathology today. Shear and Stevens 450 



Progress in control of plant diseases, Vaughan 450 



[Plant diseases in South Africa, 1917-18], Evans 450 



[Outgrowths on plants], Schoevers 450 



[Verticilliose] in cultivated crops, van der Lek 450 



Clover stem rot. Wolf and Cromwell 450 



" Heart damage " in baled jute, Finlow 451 



Heart rot or black pit of pea, van der Lek 451 



Potato diseases, VI-VIII, Doidge 451 



Leptonecrosis of the potato plant, and allied diseases, Quanjer et al 451 



The use of lime in controlling finger-and-toe in turnips, Hendrick 451 



" Little leaf " of deciduous fruits, Hodgson 452 



A new disinfectant for pear blight, Reimer 452 



Citrus canker [in the Transvaal], Evans 452 



Bud curl of the lemon tree. Miller 452 



On a tree of ^sculus pavia killed by Botnftis cinerea, Brierley 453 



Walnut blight [in South Africa], Doidge 453 



Polysaccnm, crassipas: A fungus in eucalyptus plantations, van der Bijl — 453 



Heart rot of PtwroxyJon utile caused by Fames nnwsus, van der Bijl 453 



Decayed wood and the fungi therein as seen with the microscope, Lee 453 



The decay of timbers in buildings, Blair 453 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



A review of the ornithology of Minnesota, Roi>erts 454 



Recent investigations on the food of certain wild birds, Collinge 454 



Some further investigations on the food of wild birds, Collinge 454 



North American pseudophyllidean cestodes from fishes. Cooper 455 



Work connected with insect and fungus pests and their control, Watts — 455 



[Insects and insect control in British Guiana], Bodkin 455 



Common Britisli beetles and spiders and how to identify them, Sedgwick- 455 



