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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



A huyc niimlHT of nuts were cxainiiieil. Tlie re.><nltH ubtaiiicil are snniiiiarized in 

 tlic f.illnwiii!,' table: 



Analyses <uid value of nuts. 



Kind of nut. 



Largo black waliuit. 

 Small black walnut. 



English walnut 



Butternut 



Large hickory 



Slu'il-bark hickory.. 



tipaiiish chestnut 



.Vnu'iican chestnut.. 



Filbert 



La rge pecan 



Small pecan 



Brazil luit 



AlniDnd 



Peanut 



Qiiantity 

 of ker- 

 nel pur- 

 chiused 

 for 5 

 cents. 



Ounces. 

 7.2 

 8.1 

 1.7 

 8.2 

 5.3 

 8.5 

 4.6 

 3.9 

 2.3 

 1.9 

 2 



1.9 

 1.1 

 5.8 



The author calls attention to the fact that the Brazil nuts examined were poor 

 specimens, which reduced the percentage of kernel materially. There was also a 

 loss of about 2 per cent of the weight of all varieties of kernels in cracking. 



The culture and preparation cC vanilla in German East Africa, R. Blitzner 

 {T)-oj)ciij>tl(iii,:i'r, (190^.'], No. ./, p]>. .I(lhl74)- — This article deals with the jjlanting 

 and after cidture of vanilla and with the fermentation, curing, and packing of the 

 product. 



Trees, shrubs, and vines of the northeastern United States, H. E. Pakk- 

 ni'KsT {Xi'ir York: Cliarles ScrHmrr's Son.'f, ]!M)3, jip. 4^1, pis. .'>0). — This is a popular 

 work describing more particularly the trees and shrul)s found in Central Park, New 

 York City. The second part of tlie 1 took consists of descriptions of native and natural- 

 ized trees found in the northern Ignited States from Maine to Virginia and west to 

 the Mississippi, classified by their leaves. The work is designed more i)articularly 

 for the nonbotanical reader. 



Report of the committee on school gardens and children's herbariums for 

 the year 1902, 11. L. Cl.vpi^ ( Tnms. .Uassa<-lii(sflts Hurl. Soc. 190?, II, jip. 2.i:!-JGS, 

 fiijs. 1.')). — Tliis gives an account of the school garden work now being carried on in a 

 number (jf different sections of the country, together with a chronological list of the 

 articles published in this country on school gardens since 1890. In addition a list 

 of persons actively engaged or interested in children's garden w'ork is given and of 

 the prizes and gratuities awarded for school gardens and children's herbariums during 

 the year. 



Chrysanthemums and fertilizers, A. Buyssens {Rev. Hurt. Beige, 26 {1902), pp. 

 265-270, figs. 3). — This is an account of growing 10 different varieties of chrysanthe- 

 mums with different fertilizers. All the plants were potted in a soil comiiosed of 1^ 

 parts decomposed sod, 1 part vegetable mold, and 1 part sand. One lot of plants 

 was used as a control and received no fertilizer. Another lot had fertilizers mixed 

 with the soil. With a third lot a solution of fertilizers was made and the plants 

 watered with this. In a fourth lot fertilizers were mixed with the soil in the pot 

 and the plant was also watered with a solution containing fertilizers. With a fifth 

 lot the fertilizers recommended by G. Truffaut and based on an analysis of chrysan- 

 themum plants was used. In this case part of the fertilizer was placed in the pot 

 and a part in the water used for watering the plants. In the sixth lot a trade ferti- 

 lizer designated as " Papillon " was used. The best results in these experiments were 



