Miscellaneous papers: 1, Germination of vegetable seeds, by Edgar Brown and Willard L. Goss; 2, Botanical history and classification of alfalfa, by Carl S. Scofield; 3, Cross-inoculation of fruit trees and shrubs with crown-gall, by George G. Hedgcock; 4, Recent studies of olive-tubercle organism [with bibliography], by Erwin F. Smith; 5, Nectaries of cotton, by Frederick J. Tyler.