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An illustrated account of the coffee disease caused by Stilbella 

 flavida, is published by Kohl in the Bcihefte zum Tropenpfianzer for 

 May. 



A destructive apple rot, caused by Cephalothecium roseum following 

 the attacks of Fusicladium. is described by Eustace in Bulletin of the 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station No. 227, and the preced- 

 ing Bulletin of the same station deals with the obscure cane blight 

 and yellows of the raspberry. 



What appears to be an important study of the cancer of trees, 

 referred to a bacterial cause, by Brzezinski, is contained in the 

 March number of the Bulletin International tie P Academic des sciences 

 de Cracovie, classe des sciences mathematiqucs ct uaturclles. 



Dr. G. U. Hay, in No. XXI of the Bulletin of the Natural History 

 for that Province, in addition to an earlier list which is reprinted. 



An important paper on the Algee of northwestern America, illus- 

 trated by eleven plates, is published by Setchell and Gardner in Vol. 



March 31. y ^ f 



The Hokkaido governmental fishery bureau is publishing in 

 Japanese a well illustrated series of reports on the marine resources 

 of Hokkaido, the third of which deals with the Laminariaceae and 

 Laminaria industries. 



Under the title "The Fower Beautiful," Professor Weed has writ- 

 ten an attractive and daintily illustrated little bonk on the decorative 

 use of flowers, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 



published in the Journal o/t he Frank/ m Institute for May. 



Some useful shade-tree suggestions, for Wyoming, are published 

 no. 57, of that state. 



tin of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, no. 167. 



An account of olives and olive oil in France, by R. P. Skinner, is 

 published as no. 1639 of Advance Sheets of Consular Reports, dated 

 May 6. 



