58 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



The failure of so many weeds to maintain their vi^or where long kept 

 in one spot, after all, is what we might expect, now that we think of it^ 

 for most of them have for many years been grown and pampered on the 

 richest land and under good cultivation. There are some exceptions, 

 among which are two or three fleabanes, ox-eye daisy and narrow dock. 



Parasitic fungi take rank as weeds, when they attack our cultivated 

 plants, but they arc our friends when they attack weeds of the field and 

 garden. A jiortiou of our weed garden is given up to growing plants 

 affected by parasites. Here is a patch of clover with the snaky dodder 

 sucking the life from the stems, and near by is a barberry bush in the 

 midst of a small patch of wheat; the bush sends spores to the wheat 

 and from the old wheat straw spring spores to attack the barberr}'. 



A sedge and a nettle are in like manner rendered obnoxious to each 

 other by a rust. Last spring, to secure red cedars with the cedar apples 

 that work on apple trees, producing rust on the leaves, our friend Dr. 

 Halsted of Xew Jersey sent me some young red cedars containing good 

 specimens of the coveted parasite. Near these are planted two young 

 trees of red astrachan, little realizing the fate that awaits them next 

 spring when the fli/mnosporanf/inm matures its teleutospores. Numerous 

 other examples might be given, but these will serve to illustrate what has 

 become a very attractive feature of our weed garden. 



DONATIONS TO THE COLLEGE. 



From A. O. Farwell, Detroit, Mich.: 

 12 kinds of seeds from India. 



From G. H. Hicks. Washington, D. C: 

 3 kinds of plants. 



From Edgar Grimm, Portland, Oregon: i 



Leaves of red clover in form of cornucopite. 



From A. A. Tylor, Easton, Penn. : 

 Seeds of Polygonum arifolium. 



From E. L. Moselev, Sanduskv, O.: 

 6 kinds of seeds. 



From D. M. Andrews. Boulder, Colorado: 

 28 species of seeds of plants. 



From W. F. Ganong, Northampton, Mass. : 

 114 kinds of seeds. 



From Kew Gardens, England: 

 73 kinds of seeds. 



From W. A. Burpee, Philadelphia, Pa.: 

 Seeds of Pink Cupid, Sweet Pea. 



From C. E. Hollister, Laingsburg. Mich.: 

 A lot of seeds, mixed, of wild plants. 



From Shaw Gardens, St. Louis, Mo.: ' 



1 live plant. 



From B. D. Halsted, New Brunswick, N. J. : > 



Live cedar trees affected with Gyranosporangium. 



