452 EXPERIMENT STATION KECORD. 



School g-ardens, E. Gany {lipl. V. S. Com. Education, lSUS-99, I, pp. 1067-1084; 

 Ininsl. /nun AV/'/r-s- JWIagugiral Ci/clopfdln). — Discusses the history of school jrardcns 

 ami gives <letaile<l directions for their iiianageineiit and use. 



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

 the year 1899, H. L. Clapp {Tram. 3/rf.t.s. Hort. Soc. 1899, pt. 2, pp. 2.55-280, ph. 

 7). — A uuuiber of school gardens in Massacthusetts are briefly described. Notes are 

 given on the character of each and on the use of the gardens by the cliildren. Ger- 

 man school gardens are commented upon. Suggestions regarding prizes for scliool 

 gardens, with a list of prizes and gratuities awarded for school gardens and herbari- 

 ums in ISMSt, are added. 



Gardening' by the Columbia, Missouri, public schools, J. ('. Wiiitten {Amer., 

 (iard., 21 {1900), No. 292, pp. 504-506). — Notes on methods of nature study and win- 

 dow gardening at the school and on results obtained. 



FORESTRY. 



Forest reserves in the United States, H. Gannett {Nineteemtli 

 Ann. Rpt. U. jS. Geol. Survey, 1897-98, j^t. 5 .,})}). J^OO.,i^J^- ^10,f(js. 2; 

 ahs. in Forester, 6 {1900), JVo. S^ pjp. 65, 56). — A preliuiinary statement 

 is g-iven of the forest areas of the United States, particular attention 

 being given to their geographic and economic consideration. It is 

 said that of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, 37 per cent of the 

 entire area is wooded. 



A summary is given of the available information of the estimated 

 merchantable timber of various species occurring in the dill'erent 

 States. Reports are given on several of the timber reserves as fol- 

 lows: Black Hills Forest Reserve, H. S. Graves; Bighorn Forest 

 Reserve, F. E. Town; Teton and Yellowstone Forest Reserves, T. S. 

 Brandegee; Priest River, Bitterroot, San Jacinto, San Bernardino, and 

 San Gabriel Forest Reserves, J. B. Leiberg; Washington Forest 

 Reserve, H. B. A3^res; Eastern Part of Washing-ton Forest Reserve, 

 M. W. Gorman; Forest Conditions of Northern Idaho, J. B. Leiberg*; 

 and Pine Ridge Timber, Nebraska, N. H. Darton. 



Practical tree planting in operation, J. W. Toumey ( ZT. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Division of Foredry Bui. 27, pp. 27,p>ls. J{.,Jigs. 2). — This bul- 

 letin describes some of the practical workings of the cooperation with 

 tree planters begun by the Division in 1899 under the provisions 

 of Circular 22 (E. S. R., 11, p. 745). In addition it describes the 

 result of successful plantings in the past both for general and for 

 special purposes. The form of tree-planting agreement which is 

 entered into in all cooperative investigations is given and the plan 

 explainoxl at some length. Under this cooperative system applications 

 foi" assistance were received from nearly every State in the Union, 

 morc^, than 90 per (-(Mit. however, coming from the treeless regions of 

 Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. 



Some of the difticulties attending tree planting are mentioned. The 

 chief object of the cooperative Avork of the Division is to assist tree 



