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Sporocyhe lycopersisi, n. sp. — Tufts olive-green, flocci erect, twice or 

 thrice soptiite, about 5 ink. iu diameter. Heads terminal globose, 20 — 30 

 suk. across. Spores mimerous, sub-globose or ovate, black, 3 uik. long. 



The Phonia is preceded by conidia and niacroconidia. 



Coxidia: Cladosporiuni lycOperdci. — Hypa tufted, septate, irregular in 

 outline at their apices, springing by their bases from a black spot; compacted 

 <mycelium, spores abumhiut, cylindrical, black, 1 — Sseptate, slightly pointed 

 ■at their extremities ; 10 — 30 ink. long, by 8 — 10 mk. wide. 



Macro coxiDiA: Macroxporium lycopersici. — Fiocci, well developed, black, 

 jseptate, somewhat flexuous, producing abundantly sooty-black irregular 

 pyriform to sub-quadrate muriforni spores, which vary in size from 10 — 70 

 i?nk. long, by 10 — 20 mk. wide. 



Stylospores : Phoma ihslructiva. — Perithecia carbonaceous, minute, 

 ^globose, spherical clustered .sjtores, hyaline, oval, cylindrical, binucleate, 5 — 

 '^ mk. long, by 1.5 — 1 mk. wide. 



Another disease which sometimes but much more rarely attacks 

 Toniatos while still growing is due to a Dactyliunj very closelj' allied to, if 

 not identical with, D. roseum, B., from which it differs in producing its 

 spores in threes, and in gro-wing y)aiasitically upon a living plant. This 

 «x:lisease seems more especially to affect that variety of Tomato known to 

 gardeners as the Trophy, and commences upon the base of fruit, near the 

 attachment of the stalk. 



Dactyliuni lyoojyersici. — Forniiag a dense floccose whitish pink mass, 

 ■spores hyaline, with a tinge of pink, oval or ovato pyriform, unisejjtate, often 

 apiculate, produced in threes upon the terminal extremities of erect sparsely 

 .septate hyaline iiyphie. 



APPLES IN COLD OLHIATES. 



Orchardists living in the colder parts of Canada will be greatly 



interested in the following valuable article, contributed to the Raral 



JS'ev) Yorker by Dr. T. H. Hoskins, of Vermont : 



My orchard is on the shores of Lake Memphremagog, six miles south 

 of the international boundary line, in latitude 45 degrees north, and is 

 elevated 750 feet above the sea level. This territory lies fully open to the 

 sweep of polar waves of low temperature, and there are no winters in which 

 •our thermometers do not frequently register temperatures lower than 

 minus 30 degrees. Fifteen years ago when I began to plant an orchard, it 

 was believed to be impossible to grow any kind of apples except the Sibe- 

 rian crabs in this section of Vermont and the adjoining parts of Canada. 

 Many thousands of dollars had been expended in vain by our people for 

 the purcha.se of fruit trees from southern New England and Central New 

 York. It has been proved at a heavy cost that the standard apples of the 

 great apple regions to the south and west of us cannot be grown here. Se 

 far as I am aware, no tree of the Baldwin, lihode Island Greening, or Rox- 



