402 The Botanical Gazette. [October, 
Chester, Newark, Del.; L. R. Jones, Burlington, Vt.; L. H. Pammel, 
Ames, Iowa, and S. A. Beach, Geneva, N. Y. The membership of the 
society is carefully restricted, numbering forty-two for the last year, 
with a limit of fifty. The limit is now extended to 100. The increase 
in the society naturally follows the increased interest in agricultural 
science, and promises to add greatly to the society’s usefulness. 
of an irregular opening through the trunk with sound wood on either 
side of it—L. S.C. 
THE LAST NUMBER of the Journal of Mycology is unusually heavy, — 
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peach rosette by E. F. Smith, Cercospora disease of almonds by N. 
noteworthy as a new application of the useful Bo 
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illustrations of a new disease (cedema) of apple, an if 
the bark of the younger shoots. Prof. J. C. Ar ich any increase 
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