652 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



the requirements of forest land among the agricultural population. 45,000 

 copies have already been circulated. — F. J. C. 



Forestry and the Lumber Supply. (U.S.A. Dep. Agr. Bur. 

 Forestry, Cire. 25). — President Roosevelt declares that forestry is " in 

 many ways the most vital internal problem in the United States," and that 

 " the very existence of lumbering depends upon the success of our work as 

 a nation in putting practical forestry into effective operation." The 

 President, in his address before the Society of American Foresters, went 

 thoroughly into the question of "Forestry and Foresters," and pointed out 

 how extremely intimate was the relation between the forests and the 

 mineral industry, for on lumbering depends the success of the United States 

 as a nation in putting practical forestry into effective operation. The 

 exhaustion of the lumber supply is the subject of another interesting 

 chapter, for there was probably no forest in the world so immense, so 

 accessible, and so regular in the high quality of its timber as the exten- 

 sive pinery which occupied the region of the Great Lakes and Upper 

 Mississippi. — A. D. W. 



Frost, Resistance of Beans to. By F. W. Card and L. P. Sprague 

 {U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Bhode I., Bep. 1902, pp. 232-242).— An endeavour is 

 being made to raise Beans which shall be frost-resisting, but has met 

 with little success so far. Interesting details of experiments are given. 



F. J. C. 



Fruit Census of Connecticut (U.S. A. Exp. Stn. Conn., Bep. 1902, 

 pp. 432-443). — This return gives the acreage under bearing trees and 

 under young trees, and the number of trees and estimated crop for 1902, 

 in the various counties of the State. There are 187,008 Apple trees 

 (50,876 newly set), occupying 4/717J acres and yielding 353,508 bushels of 

 fruit, and 586,760 Peach trees (180,520 newly set), four times as many as 

 ten years ago, occupying 3,616 acres and producing 312,174 bushels of 

 fruit. The remainder of the 9,664^ acres under fruit is devoted to the 

 growing of various fruits for the most part similar to British ones, and 

 includes 198^ acres of Strawberries and 123^ acres of Japanese Plums. 

 Only well-tilled orchards are included in the above return. [The area of 

 Connecticut is 5,004 square miles, and the population in 1900 was 

 908,420. —F. J. C. 



Fruit Crops, Report on the Condition of. Anon. (Gard. Ghron. 

 No. 866, p. 72 ; Aug 1, 1903). — A long table is given of the reports of 

 nearly 270 correspondents of the state of the fruit crops in various 

 parts of this country, and comments are made on the reports in a 

 leading article on p. 78, in which the writer says : " Never, since we made 

 a practice of recording the condition of the fruit crops, a period of nearly 

 forty years, have we had to present so disastrous a record. From John 

 o'Oroat's house to the Land's End, from Galway to East Anglia, the 

 talc is the same. With the exception of Strawberries and small fruit, 

 the words 'total failure' best express the condition of affairs." The 

 reports are given in the six following numbers, on pages, 96, 112, 135, 155, 

 171, 189.- G. S. S. 



