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DISEASES AND FOES. 



In a manual upon the Cultivation of the Car- 

 nation it is necessary to deal with the diseases to 

 which it is subject, and the foes to whose attacks it 

 is specially liable. 



It is well, however, to preface our remarks upon 

 diseases by stating that it is the experience of most 

 growers that there is nothing to be done with a 

 Carnation badly diseased but to pull it up and 

 burn it. 



If, however, a valuable or scarce variety is only 

 partially affected, it may be possible to take off 

 healthy portions of it, and strike them as cuttings, 

 or to cut away the diseased portions, and at once 

 layer the healthy shoots. 



Fortunately the diseases affecting Carnations 

 are few in number. 



Two fungoid growths specially attack them : 

 Helniinthosporiiini echinulatuon, and Ureclo 

 dianthi. 



The first, Hehninthosporium echinulatuvi, was 

 minutely described by Mr. Worthington G. Smith in 

 the Gardeners Chronicle for August 21st, 18S6, 

 and we have been kindly permitted to make 

 extracts fi'om his letter and to reproduce for the 



