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fifth year showing no signs of diminution ; the berries are largest in the 

 first year. The comparative size at different ages was fomid to be 15, 4, 

 5, and 9 for the fourth and fifth years, and the estimated value of crop 

 was proportionately 34, 100, 117, 111, and 110 for first, second, third, 

 fourth, and fifth years. 



The earliest berries are chiefly found on one-year-old plants, being ripe 

 2 1 days previous to those on older plants. Average yield per acre varied 

 in different seasons from 1 to 1^ tons. 



From manurial experiments on Strawberries the conclusion arrived at 

 was that natural dung increases the crop to a certain extent, whereas 

 artificial manure does not, and that a moderate dressing of the former 

 gives almost as good a result as a heavy one. 



Liquid manuring, in four instalments, once a week during the swelling 

 season, at about one quart per plant, w^ater alone, also solutions of 3*9G lb. 

 ammonium sulphate, 5*87 lb. sodium nitrate, G*98 lb. potassium nitrate, 

 and 3'9G lb. ammonium sulphate, with 1*G5 lb. of iron sulphate, to plots 

 of 528 plants at 2 ft. apart, or 0*0485 of an acre : none of these treat- 

 ments gave marked results. As to distance of plants frtm each other, 

 1^ ft. X 1^ ft. gave better results than 1 ft. x 1 ft. — C. H. H. 



Strawberry, Packing* of the. By J. M. Buisson {Rev. Hort. 

 pp. 470-472, 10,1901; and pp. 507, 508; 11/1901).— Fifteen woodcuts. 

 Two interesting and well-illustrated articles showing modes of packing for 

 transport in various parts of France. — C. T. D. 



Strawberries, Perpetual. I>y H. Dauthenay {Bull. Soc. Hort. 

 Loiret, tome vi. No. 13, p. 581 ; 1901). — An account of, as shown at the 

 Paris Exhibition, proving ' St. Antoine of Padua ' to be the best variety. 



E. A. B. 



Strawberries, Resistance to Frost {U.S.A. Dept. Agr. Bull. 133; 



Exp. Stn. Work\ 1901). — As a result of experiments it was found that 

 certain varieties of Strawberries suffered less from late spring frosts than 

 others ; more especially was this the case with those in w^hich the achenes 

 or seeds are deeply embedded in the succulent tissue. 



Short fruit-stalks and long leaf-stalks proved also to some extent a 

 safeguard. — C. II. C. 



Suaeda csespitosa. By A. H. Wolley Dod {Joum. Bot. 4G8, p. 401 ; 

 12/1901). — Description of new species from Paarden Island, Cape Colony. 



G. S. B. 



Sugar Beets {U.S.A. St. Bd. West Virginia, Bep. for 1899 and 1900, 

 p. 2G9, 4 plates). — A note upon the results of experiments in Sugar Beet 

 growing in the United States. The writer shows, as a result of actual 

 experiments, of which statistics, analyses, and photographs are given, that 

 light has a considerable effect upon the development of saccharine matter 

 in the Beet.— 7. /. M. 



Sugar Beets in South Dakota. By J. H. Shepard and W. H. 

 Knox {U.S.A. Exp. Stn. S. Dakota, February 1899; with cuts). — 



