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of the fungus or its needed host-plant, Ribes, were to be found in 

 or near it. 



Knowing that the firm is a thoroughly honest and efficient 

 one — as everybody who may have had dealings with them will 

 attest — these statements may be relied upon. Self-preservation 

 and the desire to keep its world-fame for reliability must be suffi- 

 cient motives for such a concern not to remain under a cloud. 

 A man who has been sick, is not necessarily a sickly man. 



The above comment was communicated to Dr. Spaulding, and 

 he takes issue with it. 



It is fair that we should advise our readers of his strictures, 

 which are that he is not satisfied with the representations of the 

 representative of Heins Sons, and that, as late as 191 1, fruiting 

 bodies of the fungus were found in shipments from this nursery, 

 and he considers this nursery a chronic case. 



We are, of course, quite unable to decide whether or not the 

 claims of the firm are now truthful, and agree with the writer that 

 positive proof of the health of their stock must be forthcoming to 

 remove all suspicion. 



ERRATA 



By inadvertence of printer and proof reader on page 408 of 

 this volume in the last formula for the Biltmore stick the + sign 

 has become a X sign, which readers will, please, correct. 



