DOES THE BERBERRY CAUSE BLIGHT ? 



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5. light blue ; La Deesse, d. white ; Miss 

 Kitty, d. white, red eye. Later: Robin 

 Hood, d. dark blue ; Globe Terrestre, d. 

 liijht blue ; Susannah Elizabeth, d. blue ; 

 Don Gratuit, d. white ; Oq;, Koi de Basan, 

 d. white ; Sultan Achmet, d. white ; Bo- 

 quette d'Orang-e, d. yellow ; Louise d'Or, 

 d. yellow ; Voltaire, s. white ; St. Clair, s. 

 red ; Grand Vidette, s. light blue ; Prince 

 of Waterloo, d. Avhite. 



Narcissus. — For pots or glasses : Grand 

 Monarque, white and yellow cups ; Czar de 

 Moscovi, white and yellow ; Grand Primo, 

 white and orange; Bazelman Major, white 



and yellow ; Soleil d'Or, yellow and orange; 

 New Yellow Primo, yellow ; Double Ro- 

 man, yellow and white ; Paper White, pure 

 white. — Jonquills, yellow, double and single. 

 Early Tulips. — Smgle: Clarimond, two 

 varieties, rose and white ; Van Thol, red 

 and yellow ; New Yellow Van Thol ; Kei- 

 zer's Kroon, scarlet and yellow ; Paragon 

 Constant, rose and white ; Gold Standard, 

 gold colour and red. Double: Van Thol, 

 red and yellow ; Tournesol, scarlet and yel- 

 low ; La Candeur, white ; Bonaparte, dark 

 violet ; Crown Imperial, red and white ; 

 Double Yellow, 



DOES THE BERBERRY CAUSE BLIGHT IN GRAIN ? 



TRANSLATED FROM THE REVUE HORTICOLE. 



There is a popular belief, in some parts of 

 New-England, that the common Berberrj' 

 {Berheris vulgaris) is the cause of a pecu- 

 liar blight, not unfrequently found in grain 

 fields in its neighborhood. Naturalists who 

 have investigated this subject, have satis- 

 fied themselves that there is no foundation 

 for this belief, as the grain blight is an en- 

 tirely distinct species of fungus from that 

 which grows upon the Berberry. The fol- 

 lowing remarks, by M. Pepin, from a late 

 number of the Revue Horticole, throw 

 some additional light on the subject. 



The Berberry bush makes a good hedge, 

 and we would suggest to New-England 

 farmers to plant it along the roadsides, and 

 trim it in hedge form, instead of rooting it 

 out as an enemy to profitable agriculture. 

 There are few native shrubs more ornamen- 

 tal than the Berberry, when at this season 

 of the year it is laden with its numerous 

 clusters of bright red berries ; and it grows 

 with ease in the poorest soil. On the es- 

 tate of Horace Gray, Esq., at Nonantum 

 Hill, near Boston, there is a Berberry hedge, 

 which has been properly trimmed for three 

 or four years, and is now a capital living 



fence. The following is a translation of 

 M. Pepin's remarks. — Ed. 



The wet spring, and the frequent changes 

 of temperature that we experienced at the 

 commencement of the year 1846, did much 

 injury to the development and formation of 

 different grains, such as Avheat, rye, barley, 

 maize, oats, etc., which suffered much more 

 from the rot and smut than usual. 



There are some cultivators who are not 

 sufficiently aware that this injury is owing 

 to the presence of parasitical fungi, which 

 develop themselves in grain, and which de- 

 velop themselves with more intensity when 

 the early spring is damp, and the tempera- 

 ture of the nights very cold ; these atmos- 

 pheric causes contribute much to the forma- 

 tion of mildew, and of the fungi peculiar 

 to these plants. 



There are also many cultivators who at- 

 tribute this disease to the presence of 

 Berberry hedges, planted near the fields of 

 wheat and other grain for fences. But this 

 has been proved not to be the case : bota- 

 nists and physiologists have clearly demon- 

 strated that the fungus which grows on the 



