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The Dictionary of Daily Wants 



Enquire Within 



A Work on Botany, without Title page 



The Gardeners Chronicle 



Half Hours with the Microscope (Lankester) 



Professional Papers on Indian Engineering, Edited 



by Major Lang. 

 A mar a Kosha, by L. Rice. 



For the first chapter I unhesitatingly claim unlimited 

 indulgence and as I am personally desirous of gaming in- 

 formation I have purposely flavored my remarks with, to 

 me the indispensable element of speculation, as I am not 

 ashamed to confess that I know very little about the mys- 

 teries connected with the actual development of the fungi 

 which constitute the diseases under consideration, 



I may say that I am a firm believer in the maxim. 

 " The utterances of the ignorant indirectly benefit mankind 

 generally, as the wise man before he can correct an error 

 has to lay bare the truth." Had Coffee Planting been an 

 enterprise peculiar to the European Continent long ere 

 this the fungoid diseases affecting it so ruinously would 

 have engaged the attention of the whole scientific world ; 

 but as it is, these subjects have met with merely casual 

 attention and this day the unfortunate Planter so far as 

 the scientific world is concerned has not been favored with 

 one practical hint as to what is the cause, or remedy for, 

 the pests which annually ravage his Estates. " Self help" 

 is a grand institution, and under its banner no one should 

 be ashamed to engage in the combat. Leaf disease and 

 Rot like all other fungoid diseases are profound subjects, 

 but a man would be little better than a coward who 

 would not risk even being styled a charlatan or an igno- 

 ramus to endeavour to assist to improve his own pros- 

 pects and those of his brother cultivators. A skilled Phy- 



