IV CONTENTS. 



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African Baanioe, Henry, Yye«, wid Ammaon 38 



Vegetative experiments with 88 varieties of oats, Schneider 38 



Breeding and seed production of tho Rcht«l Mountain oats, Raum 38 



Wild plantain fiber from India 38 



Variety [and manurial] teats of potatoes, Dacy -^ 38 



Pointers on the growing and selection of types of eating potatoes, Schiftan 39 



Experiments in the defoliation of sugar beets, Strohmer, Briem, and Fallada. . 39 



Small beet seed, Briem 39 



The size of the seed ball of beets, Plahn-Appiani 39 



The value of bees to seed beet growing, Vaailieff 39 



The manuring of sugar cane at Samalkota, 1902-1912, Hilson 39 



The culture of flue-cured tobacco, Mathewson 39 



The U telo, a plant with oleaginous seeds, Mestdagh 39 



On the selection of a type of wheat resistant to severe winters, Kolkunov 40 



Portuguese varieties of wheat and their improvement, Klein 40 



Clover and grass seeds, Boerger 40 



Seed tests, Hiltner et al 40 



HOBTIOTJLTURB . 



Grarden farming, Corbett 40 



Pomology, horticulture, and viticulture, Reimers 40 



Report of field work by the horticultural department during 1911, Dacy 40 



[Fruit trees in Paraguay], Bertoni 41 



Wild fruits of Paraguay, Bertoni 41 



The pubescent-fruited species of Prunus of the Southwestern States, Mason. . . 41 



Fruit variety testa on the Southern Utah Experiment Farm, Ballantyne 41 



Orchard notes, Thompson 41 



Fruit for exhibition, Batchelor 41 



Box packing of apples. Palmer 41 



Packing Indiana apples. Palmer 41 



Cold stoia^e for Iowa-grown apples, Greene 41 



The Amencan peach orchard, Waugh 42 



Maurer's gooseberry book, Maurer 42 



The practice of grape growing. — I, The technique of grape grafting, Wanner. . . 43 



Influence of various grape stocks on the harvest, Faes and Porchet 43 



The sexual elements of grape hybrids, Gard 43 



Variability of the coffees grown in the Dutch East Indies, Cramer 43 



First reports on selection testa of Robusta coffee. Van Hall 43 



On the tarring of pruning-wounds in tea plants, Bernard and Deuss 43 



Tea manuring experiments, Bernard and Deuss 43 



Leucasna glauca as a green manure for tea, Bernard 43 



Individual variation in the alkaloidal content of belladonna plants, Sievers. . . 44 



Rose geranium culture, Charabot and Gatin 44 



FORESTRY. 



Forestry, Hausrath 44 



Forestry, Kostlan 44 



Logging, Bryant 44 



Work of the Dominion Forestry Branch, Campbell 44 



[Report of the] committee on forests, Leavitt et al 45 



Forest policy of British Columbia, Ross 45 



Avondale Forestry Station, Forbes 45 



Report on forest statistics of Alsace-Lorraine 45 



The sun energy in the forest, Wagner 45 



The influence of aquatic mediums on the roots of trees, Bondois 45 



Florida trees. Small 45 



The forests of the Far East, Hofmann 45 



Some Douglas fir plantations.— II, Cochwillan wood, North Wales, Thomson. . 46 



The structure of the wood of East Indian species of Pinus, Groom and Riishton. 46 



The kapok trees of Togo, Ulbrich 46 



The "wood-oil" trees of China and Japan, Wilson 46 



Tagua, vegetable ivory, Albes 46 



Uses of beech, birches, and maples, Maxwell 46 



The wood-using industries of Iowa, Maxwell and Harris 46 



Forest products of Canada, 1912, Lewis and Boyce 46 



To get long life from untreated timber in trestles 47 



