Several investigators have recently issued reports upon comparatively well known diseases and insects, with the most approved remedies for them. These reports are invaluable to anyone who grows a plant, and are as follows: Treatment of Plant diseases, extracted from Journal of Mycology; B. T.

Galloway, Department of Agriculture (grape diseases, pear scab and leaf-blight, powdery mildew of apple, peach yellows, mildews under glass, cranberry fungi, apple scab, copper salts as fungicides, smut in cereals). Rusts, Smuts, Ergots and Rots, New Jersey Board of Agriculture, and also separately printed; B. D. Halsted, New Brunswick, N. J. Fungicides, Bulletin No. 102, Connecticut Experiment Station ; Roland Thaxter. The Treatment of Certain Fungous Diseases of Plants, Bulletin C, Tennessee Experiment Station; F. Lamson Scribner. Insecticides, Bulletin No. 58, Michigan Experiment Station ; A. I. Cook. Insecticides, Bulletin No. 15, Alabama Experiment Station; George F. Atkinson. Entomological Notes, Bulletin No. 9, Florida Experiment Station; J. C. Neal. L. H. B.

Strawberries in Virginia.

Fungi and Insects.