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come over to stay at Port Hope for the Chicago Exhibition, 

 but delightful as it would be to see all the friends who would 

 be gathered to such a centre, neither sister nor self could 

 manage the fatigue. 



Our millionaire lady who is so known for her philan- 

 thropic work Baroness Burdett-Coutts wrote me that she 

 had been elected President of the, or a Woman's Branch of 

 the, Chicago Exhibition, and desired an account of the 

 " Genesis of my organisation ! " What could I say ? 

 There is not a woman but myself and my sister in it. 

 I thought of Canning's famous " Knife Grinder" story, 

 " God bless you, I have none to tell, sir." The Baroness 

 wrote that she was obtaining information from the Bishops 



Female, showing side and upper surface ; larval scales, with legs 

 still visible all magnified ; infested gooseberry twig. 



FIG. 50. CURRANT AND GOOSEBERRY SCALE, LECANIUM If IBIS, FITCH. 



and the heads of all the Churches, so I suppose her branch 

 is pur et simple religious female organisations. 



March 13-16, 1893. 



You will see by a copy of the Report I have just issued 

 that we have really got the Heterodera radicicola (Root-knot 

 eel-worm). I should have liked to give the name of the 

 sufferer, but he is our greatest English tomato grower, and 

 it might have injured his business. He is trying many 

 experiments, and at the end of April he is going to give me 

 a report. It would be a pleasure indeed if we managed to 

 make out any serviceable remedy. 



At present I am trying to make a fair history and descrip- 



