IV CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Food requirements of seed beets, mother beets, and cuttings, Andrb'k et al . . . 141 



An experiment in Swedish turnip culture, Canl 142 



nOKTICULTURE. 



[Horticultural investigations in Alaska], Georgeson et al 142 



Report of the liorticnlturist, Higgins 143 



Keport of the South Ha\en Substation for 1906, Taft and Wilken 143 



[Horticultujul crops of U])per Peninsula Substation], Geismar 144 



Keport of the horticulturist, Garcia 144 



Report of tlie horticultural division, Card 144 



The cultivation and handling of goldenseal, Henkel and Klugh 146 



Marketing the muskmelon, Lloyd 146 



Notes on Brassica crosses, Sutton 146 



How new fruits can be made by crossing, Fletcher 147 



Horticultural districts of the State, Marshall et al 147 



Fall and early winter injuries to trees and shrubbery by freezing, Selljy 147 



The forcing of grafted American grape stocks, Drago 147 



The tropical plants of commercial importance, de Wildeman 148 



The date sugar palm ( Plurni.v si/lrestris), Banerjei 148 



Ether and. the germination of seeds, Taubenhaus 148 



A handbook for planning and planting home grounds, Manning 148 



Laws of Massachusetts relating to public shade trees 148 



FORESTRY. 



Forest economy, Huffel 149 



State forestry "development, Rane 149 



Contribution to the forest statistics of Alsace-Lorraine 149 



Forestry in the provinces of Malaga, (Grenada, Jaen, and Cordova 149 



Forest administration in Icjwer Bengal for the year 1905-6, Lovegrove. . ...... 149 



Fire conservancy in Burma, Bryant 149 



Economic thinning of white pine, Hawes 149 



Condition of cut-over longleaf pine lands in Mississippi, Holmes and Foster. . 150 



Mexican timber, Butman 150 



Austria's wood industry and lumber trade, von Engel. • 150 



A treatise on the commercial uses of wood, Mathey 151 



The arboretum of the National ^School of Streams and Forests, Jolyet 151 



The evergreen trees of Colorado, Longyear 151 



Notes on the bamboos of Indo-China, Crevost 151 



The chestnut tree, Lavialle 151 



Karite, argan, and other African sapotaceous trees, Perrot and Chevalier 151 



Teak wood, Biisgen, Hosseus and Busse 152 



Growing wattle bark, Millward 152 



Willow culture in Holland, Hesseling 152 



An effective screen for nurseries, Zavitz 152 



The cultivation of Ficus elustica, Bald 152 



Herea guyanensis in Surinam, Van Asbeck 152 



A new [rubber-producing] forest species of Tonquin, Eberhardt 152 



Observations on rubber-producing tree of Tonquin, J^berhardt and Bloch 152 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



A contribution to the biology of wood-destroying fungi, Rumbold 153 



Parasitism of Melampi/ruin pratense, Gautier 153 



On the existence of Mijxoiiiomis }>dx, Trzebinski 153 



A study of jUpfrgillas flarus, Brocq-Rousseu 153 



Distorted barley heads, von Hegyi 153 



Dry r( )t of corn, Burrill and Barrett 153 



Diseases of the peach, Foex 154 



A spot disease of potatoes, Swellengrebel 154 



A Fusarium disease of potatoes, Appel 154 



A leaf spot disease of sisal in German East Africa, Braun 155 



The smuts of sorghum, Freeman and Umberger 155 



The field treatment of tobacco root rot, Briggs 155 



The susceptibility of various varieties of wheat to smut, Kirchner 156 



