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nematode. The disease appears first in the neck of the bulbs, 
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in storage. Rotation, trap-plants, heat, and spraying solutions 
are mentioned as preventative and remedial measures. 
The output of lumber in the United States last year was about 
36,000,000,000 feet, 10 per cent. less tha $s year 
he decrease is said to be due to less building, scarcity of labor, 
transportation difficulties, etc. Th i n heads 
its nearest competitor being Douglas fir, while white pine and 
white oak together about equalled the output of Douglas fir. 
The Briti tish Government i ordered 100,000 kapok waist- 
coats for its sailors. his ‘‘ vegetable wool,’ derived from 
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our own sailors. Specimens of crude kapok, somewhat re- 
sembling cotton, may be seen on the main floor of the museum 
building. There are also specimens of an interesting wild species 
of Bombax from the limestone cliffs of western Cuba, the inner 
bark of which yields a valuable fiber. The outer bark of this 
tree is smooth and ore! n and the bast tissue suggests that of our 
common linden 
In a recent bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, at 
Washington, some of the ae coniferous trees of the ocky 
and other important timber trees are discussed. The Douglas 
fir is the largest of all our western trees except the Sequoias, and 
it is adapted to an exceptionally wide range of conditions, 
from sea-level to 11,000 feet she where it may become 
reduced to a tree only a few feet high. Some of the red cedars 
in the Rocky Mountain region are 1,000 years old, and some o 
the larches live to be 700 years old. 
