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yet been able to find the last stage of 

 spore formation and therefore there is 

 doubt as to the botanical name of the 

 rust. On this account those who have 

 the rust will confer a favor by sending to 

 the undersigned a leaf or two from a 

 rusted chrysanthemum. It will also help 

 to give a knowledge of the range of the 

 plant at the present time in the United 

 States. 



The rust is very likely an old weed and 

 well known species and may have come 

 in with imported stock or possibly infests 

 wild plants in our own country and those 

 growers of chrysanthemums who are 

 suffering from it may have wild plants, 

 even weeds, at their very doors that har- 

 bor and propagate the greenhouse pest. 

 Those who have their chrysanthemums 

 rusted should use all the precautions 

 needed with a disease that is contagious 

 and may be carried in the stock. 



It is a good rule to propagate only from 

 stock apparently free from the rust and 

 be watchful in buying not to introduce 

 the disease into a house that was before 

 free from it. It would be interesting 

 botanically and of value commercial^ to 

 learn of some varieties of chrysanthe- 

 mums that are more or less susceptible 

 than others. Byron D. Halsted. 



New Brunswick, N. J. 



New and Rare Plants. 



HARDY AND GREENHOUSE NOVELTIES. 

 DRADA BRUNIIFOLIA. 



We have in this a very nice dwarf plant 

 about one inch high, which is well 

 adapted for borders. The bright yellow 

 flowers, three-eights of an inch in diam- 

 eter, appear in such large quantities that 

 almost nothing of the leaves is to be seen 

 when the plants are in full bloom. The 

 single flower lasts, as I observed, more 

 than one week. The flowers appear in 

 April. The perennial plants are raised 

 from seed, which should be sown in June, 

 and the plants will then bloom next 

 spring for the first time. The plant is 

 also adapted for rockeries. 



LEEA ROEHRSIANA. 



ACALYPHA GODSEFFIANA 



ERANTHIS CIUCICUS. 



This fine tuberous plant flowered in 

 January in the open air. It attains a 

 height of about four inches. Large tubers 

 often produce twentyor thirty flowers at 

 once. The flowers are best compared 

 with those of Hellcborus mger, but they 

 are a little smaller, bright yellow and de- 

 lightfully fragrant. Immediately beneath 

 the single-stemmed flower there is a fine 

 rosette of three deeply incised leaves, 

 which are somewhat recurved, while the 

 flowers are more or less bell-shaped. 

 They are fully expanded only when the 

 sun shines. The plant is nearly allied to 

 Eranthis hyemnlis, from which it differs 

 1)3' larger flowers and finer incised leaves. 

 It was brought into commerce last year 

 by Mr. Siehe, at Mersina, in Asiatic- 

 Turkey. 



ANTHURIUM GIST.WI. 



This is far the most majestic of the an- 

 thuriums, as the leaves measure more 

 than three feet in diameter in both direc- 

 tions. It grows best in a damp house in 

 turfy loam, where it forms leaf after leaf 

 at short intervals. But it is also grown 

 easily in a much cooler temperature, and is 

 a very decorative indoor plant. I have it 

 without aivy protection in ray room for 

 more than a year, where it grows very 

 satisfactorily, though the leaves do not 



