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prodiu'o fruit. thi)ii'_'li 1 ^raiit thai docs not «iilluri' as well as incri' Ixitiiiiicjil scit'iicc to lulp 

 alwavs follow, for I rciiu-inhcr a iiistillati- tree him all we ran. .\ny one who can send frcsii 

 till' Madura wliiili Ixmc iVuil almiidanlly, a cut catkins, male or fmialc or ;:nod specimens 



of any sort, of oin- iiativi- kinds to him. will do us 

 ail Liood service. 



Pi:An Blight. — As we surmised m our last, 

 I'rof. liurrill was likely to he misunderstood as 

 he himself explains in the followiii*^ note. The 

 very careful examination of pear hli<:hted 



ot 



staminate tree not l)einu' within many miles. 

 The fruit, thouixh apparently perfect, was. liow- 

 ever. on examination without seed. If, then, 

 such be the capacity of nature in the Osai^e 

 Orantrc, it may be repeated in the .lapau Per- 

 simmon, thou<ih it is not, 1 think, the case in 



our native sort. I have a Virginia Persimmon branches by Prof. J. (iibbons Hunt, showing the 

 tree of some age which has never borne fruit, ' presence and action of fungi, as already detailed 

 and efforts at engrafting it have failed. It is ;„ ,,„j. pages, could not have escaped Prof. Bur- 

 said. I believe, that the Kaki may be readily bill's attention, and we feel sure Hint he must 

 engrafted on our native stock. liave meant to favor that view : 



Please. Mr. Editor, as I start the ball, give it " i send you the article to wiiich you refer in 

 a push onward. Information may gather as it your March number under the title Fungi and 

 rolls. Disease, page 87. I see your fpiotation is not 



[If these Japan varieties are to be reproduced f\^r wrong, but reference was made to the species 

 by seed, and not by grafting, our correspondent's named in the article not being definitehj proved 

 warning is timely ; for, as he says, the flowers , t^ be the cause of the death of the limbs. Fur- 

 are irregular in their sexual character. Many ix^qx^ I meant to state that we did not know the 

 are male plants, having no power to develop i mode of action and special effect of any species 

 anything but stamens. AVe suppose there are ^po^ these trees, whether named or not. I 

 some with imperfect stamens, and which have | baye little or no doubt but that the disease is 

 yet the power of developing imperfectly, with- 1 j^ .^ome way due to fungous parasites. Am 

 out pollen; at least that is our guess at the I ^.o,itj,iui„g jbe search." 



origin of the seedless fruited kinds; but there are ; ^^^^ p^^^^ Blight—TIus is the most popu- 

 some which are truly hermaphrodite, and ""^i" | j^r topic in the v agricultural papers just now. 

 vidual trees of these will bear fruit anywhere.— ^^.^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^.^^^^^^^ ^^^, doubting the conclusions 



Ed.] 



ED 17X1 RIAL NOTES. 



Cakxivokous Plants. — A Salem, Mass., cor- 

 respondent kindly says : " Find an important 

 error, March Xo.. page 87, Ed. Notes, fifth line. 

 Should have been insects not plants.''' The worst 



of Dr. J. Gibbons Hunt, the accomplished presi- 

 dent of the Microscopical Secli<)n of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, who, after 

 a careful mici'oscopical examination of fresh 

 specimens, decided that it was caused by a small 

 fungus working from the outside of the wood 

 inwardly, as we have already detailed in the 

 Gakdkxer's Monthly. Dr. Lcighton, of 

 Norfolk, Virginia, has in a measure confirmed 



of it is that the editor cannot put the mistake on ^^^^^^ f^^^g^ ^^ showing that i^car blighted trees 

 the " compositor," for it fell carelessly from his bad perfectly healthy roots, no fungus about 

 own pen. them; so it is not likely fungoid material was 



LiNU^i PEKENNE. — The pretty blue tlax of carried up in the liquids, and so worked from the 

 the Rocky Mountains has hitherto been thought interior as they do in the peach yellows, 

 to be the same with the Old World Linum per- ^ taking off Potato Blossoms.— A certain 

 enne. Some of our earlier botanists named it jy^ Booghe or Bogy, according to the news- 

 Linum Lewisii. In a recent number of Silli- , p^^perg^ increases his " tubercles " one-fourth, by 

 man's Journal Dr. Asa Gray remarks that it j pi,-,^.^,;^^ ^f! the blossoms as they open. Now 

 may possil)ly yet prove to be a distinct species, ! ^^^^^ bundred instead of three hundred baskets 

 and to bear this name. ^f Murphies is worth tryhig for; but others be- 



The American Poplars. — These are in such j sides this Bogy who have tried it assert it can- 

 confusion, that it becomes necessary to go over I not be done. We venture the opinion that this 

 the whole subject from fresh specimens. Mr. doctor is like some others we wot of, who think 

 Sereno Watson, of Cambridge, Mass., has un- out results and then publish them as if they 

 dertaken the arduous task. It will serve horti- were focts accomplished.. 



