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It may be interesting, but hardly practical or necessary in this 

 connection, to take notice of the many earlier works now out of 

 print. Of more importance to us, practically, is a list of garden 

 books, pamphlets, treatises, and bulletins now in the trade or obtain- 

 able otherwise. 



In the following I will attempt to give a list, not now complete 

 by any means, but to be completed by additions as omissions come 

 to our notice. I have had no data direct from about a 

 dozen states, some of which have issued quite a number 

 of bulletins on subjects of the same character. We have 

 often found fault that the state experiment stations are not doing 

 much for the vegetable grower. The data here given do not seem to 

 bear out this contention, and the list, respectable as it is, does not 

 represent all that the stations have been doing in that line, or are 

 doing. A large number, perhaps the majority, of station bulletins 

 on vegetable topics are not mentioned here, simply because they 

 are now out of print. A good share of the station work represents 

 long and painstaking labors, and research that does not make much 

 showing in print. (The list, revised, appears later in this book.) 



WHAT THE STATIONS ARE DOING 



Most of the stations are also now working on problems connected 

 with the vegetable industry, or planning such work. Sometimes it 

 requires years of study and research before results can be given to the 

 general public. 



The Alabama Station has arranged variety and fertilizer tests 

 with fourteen growers in different localities of the state. 



The Colorado Station is working on the problems of cauliflower, 

 celery, and strawberry growing in high altitudes, of cabbage and 

 onion growing in low^er altitudes, and others. 



The Connecticut Agricultural College Station (Storrs) has under 

 preparation a bulletin on the subject of spraying cucumbers and 

 melons, the experiments having covered a period of nine years, and 

 also has under way some experiments on the breeding of beans. 

 At the State Station some tests of melon varieties are under way. 



The Iowa Station is paying particular attention to the potato, 

 and has for several years been running spraying experiments, culti- 

 vation experiments, variety testing, treatment for scab, time of plant- 

 ing and cutting, seed tests, etc. Results not yet ready for reporting. 



