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BOTANICAL 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGES. 



Report of the Botanist 382-460 



Outline of the Subjects Considered 385, 386 



The Experiment Area 386, 387 



Experiments with Turnips 388 



Potato Experiments in 1901 388, 389 



Experiments with Beans 389, 390 



Experiments in Crossing Lima Beans 390-392 



Experiments with Tomatoes 392-396 



Crossing Tomatoes 392-395 



Tomato Stock Plants 395, 396 



Experiments in Crossing Cucumbers 396 



Notes on Cucumbers 397, 398 



Experiments in Crossing Eggplants 398-400 



Experiments in Crossing Sweet Corn 400-408 



Crossing with Red Grains 400-403 



Crossing with White and Black Grains 403, 404 



Inbreeding of the Crossed Corn 404-406 



Wide Pollination in Crossed Corn 406 



Breeding of Corn for Proliflcness 407, 408 



Experiments with Salsify Hybrids 408-410 



Other Crossing 410, 411 



Plant Breeding and Improvement in Our Experiment 



Stations 411-418 



Experiments with Salad Plants 419 



Experiments with Weeds 420 



Experiments with Lawn Grasses 421 



Experiments with Ornamental Plants 421-424 



Experiments with Phloxes and Their Allies. . . .422-424 



Various Polemoniacese 424 



Experiments with Spraying 424-426 



Kerosene Emulsion 425, 426 



Soda Bordeaux and Paris Green 426 



The Asparagus Rust 426-429 



Asparagus Rust on the College Farm 429, 430 



Experiments with Pear Blight 430-433 



Root Parasites 434, 435 



Broom-Rape Upon Tomato 435, 436 



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