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soedliiig> are free from it. witli rlic oxccption of some that liiivo not 

 beon properly cared for. 



"While the clhnatie conditions and abundance of rainfall have had 

 a tendency to give the plant strength to resist the disease, yet I feel 

 encouraged to think that in a few years the rust will disappear 

 entirely." 



Mr. W. J. Morse, for A'ermont. writes, under date of November 4th: 

 ■"^No specimens of this rust have beon sent us this season, and we are 

 unable lo find any in tlic gardens around Burlington. Professor 

 Stuart, our horticulturist, tells me that he has not seen any this 

 year. The season here has been such that we have had very little 

 trouble from fungi this year. The dry spring — no rain from the 

 1st of April until about June 10th — checked most such things, and 

 the weather following Avas remarkably favoralile for vigorous growth 

 of strong, healthy plants.'" A week later the Professor kindly added 

 that a bad case of the rust liad just l>e('n reported to the Station 

 authorities. 



For ^Massachusetts, Dr. (i. E. Stone writes: "The present season 

 in this State has been nuu-h like the preceding, namely, it has Ix-en 

 unusually cold, and, there has lieen considerable rainfall. Previous 

 to June vegetation suffered much from droitth. From June on, how- 

 ever, rain has been abundant. The rust has not lieen troublesome, 

 and there has Ix-en much less than any year since it made its ap- 

 pearance. 



"In looking over the College lieds a few days ago (Octolx-r 2d) we 

 found,- after considerable search, one or two small pustules contain- 

 ing teleutospores. Last year the rust was not perceptible on this 

 bed until November, and undoubtedly we will not get very much 

 on the bed this year until October or November. 



"A number of beds in the Connecticut valley were examined by vis 

 September 3d, and no traces of rust could be found on any of the 

 beds, although during our worst season of drouth, a few years ago, 

 these beds for once showed a mixed stage of the rust, namely, teleuto 

 and uredo, as early as August 25th. 



"In the eastern part of the State, where rust has during some sea- 

 sons appeared early and been common, the beds liave been more free 

 from rust this season than since the first outbreak. A large numljer 

 of beds, examiiK'd by us Septeml)er 5th, were looking remarkably 

 green, and tolerably free from infection. On the whole, the last 



