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NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



Van Tieghem discusses the classificatory value of the embryo in 

 Ochnaceas in No. 3 of the current volume of the Bulletin du Museum 

 d' lust ire natu relic, of Paris. 



An article on " School Gardens in Cities," by Helen C. Putnam, 

 containing the first general review of school gardening in this country, 

 with a synopsis of what is done abroad, is contained in the Rhode 

 Island School Report for 1902. 



A short account, with illustration, of the public gardens at Shang- 

 hai, is contained in the Gardener's Chronicle of September 27. 



An instructive and handsomely illustrated report of the Secretary 

 of Agriculture on the forests, rivers, and mountains of the southern 

 Appalachian region, with the President's message transmitting it to 

 Congress, has recently been issued from the Government Press. 



An attractive little pamphlet on Vigna sinensis, the cowpea of the 

 South, has been issued by the experimental farm of the North Caro- 

 lina Horticultural Society, at Southern Pines. 



The Agave cultivated largely in the Mexican state of Jalisco for the 

 manufacture of the distilled beverage known as Tequila, is described 

 by Weber, under the name A. tequilana, in the Bulletin du Museum 

 (Thistoire naturelle, of Paris, No. 4 of the current volume. 



An account of the Peen-to peach, and a series of varieties that have 

 been selected from it in Florida, by Professor Hume, constitutes 

 Bulletin No. 62 of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Dr. Fairchild publishes an account of Spanish almonds and their 

 introduction into this country, as Bulletin 26 of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, of the Department of Agriculture. 



A well illustrated article on the cultivation of coffee has been pub- 

 lished by Sajo in recent numbers of Prometheus. 



An account of the China aster and its diseases, by R. E Smith, 

 constitutes Bulletin 79 of the Hatch Experiment Station of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Sunn-hemp, Crotalana Juncea and C tenuifolia, as grown and used 

 in India, is discussed in Der Tropenpflanzer for October. 



An illustrated description of Juncus textilis, a r 

 California, is distributed by Buchenau from the curr. 

 Abhandlungen of the Bremen Naturwissenschaftliclw 



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