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during the spring, when they are germinating and 
producing secondary-spores, the latter would be killed 
by a dressing of kainit, or of sulphate of potash, lightly 
worked into the soil. 
The disease is known in Holland, from where, quite unin- 
tentionally, the disease may often be re-introduced into this country 
by means of slightly infected bulbs. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE FicurRgEs. 
1. Section of Narcissus bulb, showing early stage of disease. 
Natural size. 
2. Branched mycelium bearing clusters of Fusarium spores. 
x 400. 
3. Chlamydospores or resting-spores. x 400. 
4, Chlamydospores germinating and producing secondary spores. 
x 400. 
L.—_THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF 
SOUTH AFRICA. 
the nature of the present achievement, and one need no longer 
regret the abandonment in 1892 of the ill-fated Cape Town Botanic 
Garden since a scheme for the establishment of a National Botanic 
Garden at Kirstenbosch is now being perfected, thoroughly worthy 
of a United South Africa. ; ; : 
The history of the founding of the original Cape Town Botanic 
Garden and of its transference to the Municipality has already been 
recorded in the pages of the Bulletin.* In a sense that garden has 
* Kew Bulletin, 1892, p. 11. 
