BOTANICAL DIVISION. 



THE HOLLYHOCK RUST. 



[Pucctnta Malvacearum, Mont.~\ 



Until 1886 the United States appears to have been free from this 

 fatal visitant of the European hollyhock gardens. It appeared in 

 eastern Massachusetts in that year, as recorded by Professor Far- 

 low of Harvard, and was an undoubted immigrant from Europe 

 by means of imported seed. 



In 1889 it was sent me from Geneva, N. Y., by Dr. Emery, then 

 of the New York Experiment Station, and in 1890 appeared 

 abundantly in Ithaca. It has been sent in from other places in 

 this state, but it has not apparently become prevalent in the Mis- 

 sissippi valley and westward. 



Although it is not as yet a serious menace to gardeners in 

 America, nevertheless they would do well not to neglect this warn- 

 ing of its approach, and ought, it seems to us, to make every 



