582 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



we have our doubts, from a very varied knowledge of the tree, as to its 

 value in a purely economic sense. 



A good account of the Inverleiner State Forest is given by Mr. Munro 

 Ferguson, M.P.— A. D. W. 



Frost Injuries to Sycamore Buds. By Hermann von Schrenk 

 (Rep. Miss. Bot. Gard. 1907, pp. 81-83]; 1 plate).— Heavy late frosts in 

 April and May kill the young leaves and buds ; but the latter are so 

 replaced by adventitious buds that no permanent injury need result. 



G. S. B. 



Frost Resistance in Beans, Breeding for. By F. W. Card 

 (U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Rhode L, Rep. 1907, pp. 220-225).— Experiments 

 were commenced some years ago with the object of obtaining a strain 

 of beans which would be frost-resistant. The seed was selected each 

 year from plants which withstood the greatest degree of cold without 

 injury ; but it is concluded, as the result of the experiment, that this 

 method is not likely to lead to any good result in that direction. — F. J. C. 



Fruit-growing in Illinois (U.S.A. State Ilort. Soc. Illinois, 

 Ann. Rep. 1906). — The greater part of this report (500 pp.) is occupied 

 by the papers and discussions at the meetings of this society, and the 

 major portion concerns fruit-growing in the open. Various members 

 read papers, and apparently animated discussions are raised upon the 

 papers read. Lists of fruits approved for cultivation in the various 

 sections of the State are given. — F. J. C. 



Fruit-growing in Missouri (U.S.A. State Hort. Soc. Missouri, 

 Ann. Rep. 1906). — Like the preceding, mostly occupied by reports upon 

 various aspects of fruit-growing. Such familiar problems as the grading, 

 packing, and marketing of apple, spraying for a variety of diseases, the 

 treatment of nursery stock to ensure freedom from insect and fungus 

 pests, and dust versus liquid spraying (in this report dust spraying is 

 praised — an unusual circumstance) are fully treated of. — F. J. C. 



Fruit-preserving for Farmers. By William Jaques (N.Z. Dep. 

 Agr., Div. Biol, and Hort., Bull. 19). — A very complete manual on the 

 art of bottling fruits which might be studied with advantage by many 

 housekeepers whose preserving of fruit stops short at making jams 

 and jellies.— M. L. II. 



Fruit Trees in Pots. By M. Paul Lecolier (Jour. Soc. Nat. Hort. 

 Fr. June 1908, p. 239).— It is suggested that the fruit trees now 

 so successfully grown in pots might be a great source of pleasure to 

 amateurs who have only a balcony or verandah at their disposal, and have 

 hitherto restricted themselves to palms, oleanders, &c. — M. L. H. 



Fungus Diseases of Scale-insects and Whitefly. By P. H. 



Rolfs and II. S. Fawcett (U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Florida, Bull.di; July 1908; 

 with 20 woodcuts). — This bulletin records the experiments made in 

 Florida in the introduction into the orchards of fungus diseases which 

 attack the scale-insects and whitefly. The six fungi discussed in this 



