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the eternal fitness of things ; but that you have a well manned 

 ship under your feet is patent to all men. 

 Mrs. Storer sends her best wishes, and I am 



yrs ever 



F. H. Storer. 



(S. W. J. TO J. B. 0.) 



[In regard to strawberry rust.'] August 21, 1878 — Brewer 

 agrees with me in the opinion that it is probably a fungus 

 which attacks them, and if so, we are not competent to study 

 it. Prof. W. G. Farlow of Cambridge, Mass., is the single 

 person in the U. S. who is fully adequate to the investigation. 

 I shall write to him by this mail to learn what he knows about 

 it and what he can do about it. 



(S. W. J. TO W. G. F.) 



Nov. 27th, 1878. 



My dear Sir; — Yours of 25th is rec'd. Accept my thanks 

 in behalf of our Agriculture for your kind service. ... I find 

 the fungus, now, described and figured in Sorauer's Hand- 

 buch der Pflanzen Krankheiten, but failed to find it there 

 when Olcott first brought it to my notice, because the index 

 does not contain the word Erdbeere. Very truly yours, 



S. W. Johnson. 



(S. W. J. TO P. M. A.) 



Feb'y 28th, 1879. 



Dear Sir : — The cranberries are rec 'd as well as your postal. 

 I regret that I can see no way in which a chemical exami- 

 nation would be of service. The scald or blight is most prob- 

 ably a fungus, and the careful microscopic study of the fungus 

 and cranberry at the bogs in summer by a skilled specialist 

 is doubtless the way to follow in order to know and possibly 

 circumvent the rot. Undoubtedly chemical analysis of the two 

 lots sent would show differences. So would two samples of 



