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esve sublimate and formalin) on early growth of potatoes, upon apple scald, 
st smut, and onion mildew, and upon the orange hawkweed (Hieracium 
| erantiacum L.), for which salt applied dry at the rate of about 3000 pounds 
wracreis found to be an effective exterminator. All the topics include 
may new and important observations. 
The report of the botanist of the New Jersey station, Byron D. Halsted, 
iusbeen distributed as a separate in advance of the full report for the year 
ily. It is probably the largest report (pp. 261-394) made by any of the 
- tation botanists, and records a great number of observations, mostly relat- 
tm to plant diseases and fungicides. The turnip, cabbage, potato, pep- 
je, tomato, bean, onion, spinach, egg plant, clover, cucumber, pea, Carrot, 
ceery, beet, sweet potato, asparagus, pear, violet, hollyhock, and many other 
: nltvated plants have received attention. Beside pathological studies, 
‘periments were made in shading plants with lath screens, advantageously 
meme et lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, celery, and bush beans, and injuri- 
wasly in other cases. The report is illustrated with thirty-two cuts, all half- 
‘ones from photographs, and nearly all most wretchedly printed. It seems as 
Swetsonable to print illustrations so badly that nothing can be made out of 
a4 itwould be to print the text in a blurred and unreadable condition.— 
