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Diagrams of Plant Diseases.— The Board of Agriculture and 



Fisheries have issued a further series of coloured diagrams pre- 

 pared under the supervision of the Director of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew, to accompany the first series, which deals with 

 diseases of forest trees. The second series deals with diseases of 

 fruit and fruit-bearing plants. These diagrams, which are suitable 

 for lecture rooms, museums, schools, &c, are contained in seven 

 sheets, 21 in. by 15 in., price Is. each sheet, or 6s. &d. a set. They 

 will be sent post free on receipt of the money with the order. 

 Remittances should take the form of cheques or postal orders, and 

 not stamps. Each diagram is accompanied by a brief account of 

 the disease, together with a statement of the measures to be taken 

 for their prevention or eradication, printed in large type, in the 

 form of a wall sheet. A small hand-book giving similar informa- 

 tion can also be had, price Id. The following diseases are included 

 in the diagrams : 



No. 1. Strawberry leaf-spot, Strawberry mildew, Apple-rot, 

 Cherry scab. 



No. 2. Apple mildew, Apple canker, heart- wood rot, tree-root 

 rot. 



No. 3. Bladder Plums, Peach leaf-curl, shot-hole fungus, leaf 

 blight. 



No. 4. Apple scab, Pear scab, brown rot. 



No. 5. Vine leaf -blotch, Vine leaf -scorch, black rot of Vine, 

 powdery mildew of Vine. 



No. 6. Pear leaf cluster-cups, Apricot rust, American Goose- 

 berry disease. 



No. 7. Walnut leaf-blotch, Cherry leaf-scorch, Hazel mildew, 

 silver leaf. 



The diagrams in the first series, dealing with forest trees, referred 

 to above, are as follows : — 



No. 1. Coral-spot disease, Plane leaf -scorch, Apple tree canker, 

 golden tree-agaric. 



No. 2. Pine trametes, Apple heart- wood rot, scaly tree-poly- 



porus, common hairy stereum, false tinder fungus. 

 No. 3. Conifer cluster-cups. 



No. 4. Collar rot, Birch polyporus, Conifer root-rot, tinder 

 fungus, slimy tree-agaric. 



No. 5. Heart-WOOd rot. RirfJi nnlninrna rlrv rnf. wftt WOOd- 



rot. 



leaf 



cups, Sycamore leaf-blotch. 

 No. 7. Larch canker, conifer rust. 

 No. 8. " Witches' Brooms " of Silver fir. 

 No. 9. Conifer seedling blight, Spruce canker, Pine branch 



twist, seedling mildew, Osier rust. 



These diagrams can be obtained at the office of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries, 4, Whitehall Place. London. S.W. 



