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New Garden Plants of the Year 1909 Page 295 



The Narcissus Culture in Great Britain ,296 



D. B. CRANE, The Book of the Sweet Pea 296 



Artificial Aids to Forcing 297 



XXVIII Arboriculture. 



Acreage under Orchards distinguishing the Kind of Fruit and 

 the Acreage also accounted for under Small Fruit and Per- 

 manent Grass, as returned on the 4th June 1909 in Great 



Britain .299 



Fruit Growing in the United Kingdom 300 



Acreage of Orchards and Vineyards in the British Empire. . . 300 



E. A. BUNYARD, The Physiology of Priming 301 



A. J. MANNING, Root-pruning Fruit Trees 301 



W. R. G. ATKINS, Variation of Osmotic Pressure in the Sap dur- 

 ing the Ripening of Some Fruits 301 



A KIRK, Grape Culture 302 



Apples of Great Britain , 302 



Pruning Apple Trees , 303 



G. BELLKTRE, Fruit Packing for England of French Products . 303 



Simple Method proposed for Retaining Freshness in Fruit . . . 304 



L. H. YATES, Successful Jam Making and Fruit Bottling . . . 305 



Fruit Bottling 35 



WILLIAM E. BEAR, Fruit imported into Great Britain .... 305 



G. BELLETRE, The English Fruit Market 306 



- The Best Kinds of Fruits for the British Market 307 



Selling of Fruit in Great Britain. Hull is a Good Distributing Centre: 



Present Conditions 310 



DUKE OF BEDFORD and SPENCER U. PICKERING, The Blossoming 



of Apple Trees 312 



XXIX Forestry. 



The Woodland Area of Great Britain in 1905 313 



Area of Land Available for Afforestation 314 



JOHN FLEMING, Afforestation in England. When Afforestation 



Comes 316 



Afforestation of Catchment Areas 316 



KENNET MACKENZIE, Afforestation and Local Taxation. . . . 317 

 JOHN STIRLING-MOSEWELL, The Immediate Needs of Forestry in 



Scotland 3 1 ? 



MARTIN MARTIN, The Importance of Forests in Military Defence 318 



Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society . . . 318 

 W. B. HAVELOCK and LESLIE S. WOOD, Plantations Competition 



1909 319 



AUGUSTINE HENRY, Forestry Exhibition at Gloucester 1909 . . 320 



J. NISBET, The Productivity of Woodland Soil 320 



