IV CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Cranl)erry investigations, Whitson and Maldc 40 



Relation of weather to the setting of fruit; with blooming data, liedrick 41 



Pruning fruit trees, Thornber 42 



Notes on the avoeado fruit, Loew 42 



Dry-land olive culture in northern Africa, Kearney 42 



The decay of oranges while in transit from California, Powell et al -i'.i 



Nomenclature of the pear; a catalogue-index of the known varieties, Ragan.. 44 



Report of the coffee expert, Van Leenhoff 45 



The fermentation of cacao and of coffee, Loew 45 



FORESTRY. 



Forests 46 



Yearbook of the administration of government and funds property, Heidler. . 46 



A statistical review of the forest administration of Baden for 1905 46 



Progress report of forest administration in Baluchistan for 1905-6, Singh ...... 46 



Trees and their life histories. Groom 46 



The commercial forest trees of Massachusetts, Clark 47 



Forestry from a commercial standpoint, Kane 47 



Practical results in basket willow culture, Mell 47 



Yield tables for the spruce and beech of Switzerland, Flury 47 



Progress in chestnut pole preservation, Weiss 48 



Experiments with railway cross-ties, Eastman 48 



Forest products of the United States, 1906 49 



Wood pulp in Norway, Johnson 49 



Resinous products of Dipterocarpaces'S of Indo-China, Milliau and Cr^vost. . . 49 



Bamboo as raw material, Raitt 50 



Rubber cultivation in the British Empire, Wright. 50 



Caoutchouc and gutta plants, Jumelle 50 



India-rubber and its manufacture, Terry 50 



DISE.\SES OF PLANTS. 



Report of the botanist for 1907, Clinton 51 



Symptoms of disease in plants, Heald 51 



The control of plant diseases, Whetzel and Stewart 52 



Cultures of Uredinefe in 1907, Arthur „ 52 



The life history of Puccinia malvacearum, Dandeno 52 



Blindness in barley 52 



Barley smut investigations, Moore and Stone 53 



Observations upon the prevalence of early potato blight in Wisconsin, Milward . 53 



Potato spraying experiments for 1907, Milward 53 



Diseases affecting rice in Louisiana, Fulton 53 



[Fermentation and diseases of tobacco] , Loew 54 



Peach leaf curl, Evans 55 



Notes on the black knot of plum, Dandeno 55 



Gooseberry black knot 55 



Combined treatment for prevention of powdery and downy mildew, Donon. . 55 



Timber fungi, with special reference to the pines, Bates 56 



The treatment of damping off in coniferous seedlings, Spauliling 56 



Fomes pinicola and its host plants, Pennington 57 



Some diseases of rubber plants, Bernard 57 



Fungicides, Whetzel and Wilson 57 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY- — ENTOMOLOGY. 



Report on rabbit branch, Crawford 57 



Observations on the food of a number of birds, Passerini and Cecconi 57 



The locust-destroying birds of the Transvaal, d'Evelyn 57 



Some observations concerning the effects of freezing on insect larvse, Hine 57 



The more important insects injurious to Indian agriculture, Lefroy 57 



The Indian surface caterpillars of the genus Agrotis, Lefroy and Ghosh 57 



Combating ants and locusts in South America, Bolle 58 



European insect pests in North America, HeymonsI 58 



[Insect pests] , Craig, Slingerland, and Crosby 58 



Report of the entomologist and plant pathologist. Tower 58 



The so-called green bug and other grain aphids in Minnesota, Washburn 58 



