This bulletin contains, among other things, records of tests with tomatoes, potatoes, beans and peas, by James Clayton. The results are tabular, but few conclusions are drawn, and the figures are not full enough to present measures of the varieties. It is wholly impossible, anyway, to construct an accurate judgement of a variety from mere weights and measurements. The only tangible parts of the vegetable records are the following sentences : " Amongst the varieties of tomatoes, especial attention is called to the Acme, Golden Queen, Paragon and several others of Livingston's varieties, as being all that anyone could desire." Among potatoes "the Burbank, Mammoth Prolific and Ross' New Giant are specially mentioned as being prolific, smooth and of good size, while the keeping qualities of the Burbank are unsurpassed".

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The horticultural portions of this bulletin are concerned with tests of various varieties of vegetables and experiments with grapes. The meagre discussions of characteristics of varieties of vegetables are presented in tables, without summaries, and little can be got from them. Tests were made with varieties of potatoes, peas, radishes, tomatoes, cabbages and muskmelons. Fertilizer tests were made upon potatoes, and several varieties were compared as to keeping qualities.

Several sorts of cabbages were sown October 11, and allowed to remain during the winter. "One row of each variety was protected by inclining a foot plank on the north side, the rows running east and west. There was a marked difference in those protected in this manner ; the plants being about three times larger than the unprotected in all the varieties except the Large Late Drumhead and the Bloomsdale Large Late Flat Dutch, which were about five times as large as those not protected. Only about twenty per cent. of the Drumhead Savoy, Landreth's Early Summer and Green Curled Savoy, unprotected, survived the winter. For the first month, the protected continued to grow and remained larger than the unprotected ; but after that the unprotected ones grew rapidly, until finally no difference could be seen. Protecting them did not cause them to head any earlier. Bloomsdale, Large Late Flat Dutch and Large Late Drumhead produced fine heads, and nearly all of them headed".

The vineyard, to which reference has been made in former abstracts, continues to do well. "From this year's experiment we draw the following conclusions, so far as they can be drawn from results of one year: 1. That the grape grows and fruits well on 'red prairie land.' 2. That the varieties of black grapes rot less than the white. 3. That sacking the white grapes (except Niagara) and Delaware (red) does not pay. 4. That the Concord, Ives, Norton's Va., Niagara and Hartford will pay for planting in the prairie for table use, and are benefited by being sacked".

How Crops Grow. A Treatise on the Chemical Composition, Structure and Life of the Plant, for Students of Agriculture, with Numerous Illustrations and Tables of Analyses. Second Edition. By Sawed W, Johnson, M. A. Pp. 4/6. Orange Judd Co., N. Y, Twenty years have passed since Professor Johnson first gave students of agriculture his inimitable and invaluable works, "How Crops Grow" and "How Crops Feed." These works have been more helpful to the study of agriculture in its chemical aspects than all other American works combined. It is with great pleasure, therefore, that we take up a new edition of the older work, for progress has been rapid during the intervening years. This new book is, in the best sense, a revision. It is not an extension. It adheres strictly to the original plan, and therefore possesses all the merits of conciseness and perspicuity which characterize the first edition. The new volume is larger than the old by only about twenty pages, yet there is more than this amount of new matter, as some seventeen pages have been saved by reducing the tabular matter in the appendix and the prefatory matter has been shortened.

Vegetables In Alabama.

Wlnter-grown Cabbage Plants.

Grapes In Alabama.

How Grapes Grew.

The most conspicuous additions and extensions in this edition are the discussions upon carbohydrates, albumi. noids, alkaloids, amides, the functions in the plant of potassium, magnesium and calcium, and seed variation and selection. In the original volume, the discussion of ferments was confined to the action of diastose in germination, but in the later one it is considered in a larger sense in connection with the albuminoids. In short, the volume presents an epitome of the present knowledge of how crops grow, without presenting a burden of details.