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are so constituted that they are disposed to take on ihe disease, just as 

 some persons are scrofulous. Some plants can not be affected by fungus 

 growth ; they are so conditioned or constituted that fungi will not form 

 on them, not that they are not attacked by it. 



Prof. Burrill — Fungus does attack plants. 



Dr. Warder — It attacks plants as small pox attacks a man. My 

 pear trees have been attacked by blight, that had never seen leaf blight. 



Mr. Galusha — It was said some years ago among us, that fungus did 

 not attack healthy vegetable tissues, but operated as a scavenger upon tis- 

 sues already diseased. If this is so, we would like to know it. 



Dr. Warder — 1 never saw such a vigorous growth as my roses had 

 the past year, and the leaves got sick and fell off. 



BEAUTIFYING THE HOME. 



Dr. Long asked permission to make a few remarks upon the subject 

 of Dr. Gregory's essay. He said : 



The subject is well worth your attention. To beautify our homes is 

 one of the first things to attend to ; and nothing makes home so attract- 

 ive as the flower-garden ; and nothing is more in place than the flowers 

 and ornamental shrubbery around the house. It requires but little labor 

 to fix up around the house, and make home look pleasant ; a few trees set 

 out at the proper time, takes but little time or labor. Shrubbery, roses, 

 and fiowers, properly distributed about the place, give it a wonderfully 

 pleasant home-look, and repays in the solid happiness that it gives the 

 family. 



I can point to the time when you could go a great ways and not see 

 a rose anywhere. It is not so now ; even our highways are ornamented 

 with trees, and I desire to see even greater progress in this direction. 



REPORT ON SIGNAL SERVICE. 



Dr. J. A. Warder, from the Committee to present Resolutions rela- 

 tive to extending the benefits of the Signal Service, reported as follows: 



Your committee, to whom was referred the consideration of the 

 subject of the Signal Scri'ice and its great value to Agriculture and Hor- 

 ticulture, beg leave to enforce what has already been so well said by the 

 President and others upon its great importance to the people. 



Our only regret connected with the subject is, that while we rejoice 

 at the happy results of the Service, in enabling the hardy mariner to avoid 

 exposure to many a threatened storm, we, the agriculturists, with vast 



