1899] NEWS 147 
A SERIOUS DISEASE of the peach appeared in Michigan and other states 
several years ago and seems to be. spreading. It is known to growers as 
“little peach” for the reason that the fruit of the affected trees seldom 
attains more than one fourth normal size. The Division of Vegetable Physi- 
ology and Pathology of Washingtoh is making a study of the disease this 
year, the work being placed in charge of Mr. Merton B. Waite, who is now 
in the field. 
Mr. HERMANN von SCHRENK has been made a special agent in the 
Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology of Washington and author- 
ized by the Secretary of Agriculture to make such studies of the diseases of 
forest trees and timber as may be directed by the chief of the division to 
which he has been appointed. This important line of work has been much 
neglected in this country, and it is hoped that with the start made it will soon 
have the attention it deserves. 
Mr. W. A. OrToN, who has for several years been associated with Pro- 
fessor L. R. Jones of the University of Vermont, has been made an assistant 
= the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, Mr. Orton will spend the greater part of the summer in South 
Carolina and other southern states, investigating the diseases of cotton. He 
= Row at James island, S. C., making some preliminary studies of a disease 
of sea island cotton which has prevailed in that section for several years. 
tees ee Bacon Evis, wife of Mr. J. B. Ellis, of Newfield, N. J., 
Whil vee ome on July 18, after a long illness, at the age of sixty-eight. 
© Mts. Ellis was not known as a botanist, it was her cooperation which 
SS eat issue by her husband of the two great sets of fungi 
ios in a orth American Fungi and Fungi Columbiani, The 3000 port- 
arranged ies 99 € sets were mounted were made by her own hands ; and she 
Mens sent out . ded the pockets for about three fourths of the 200,000 spect- 
ognition, in those books. Her labor of love certainly deserves public 
Garden, eENATIONAL conference on hybridizatién was held in Chiswick 
tural Society oe July 11 and 12, under the auspices of the Royal Horticul- 
Vinery in th “ n exhibition of hybrids was given on the first day in the large 
., .vatdens. The conference was attended by many distinguished 
ists. Mr. H. J. Webber was the delegate from this 
'€ aid of lantern illustrations he described the hybridization 
Timent of A . Mr. Swingle are prosecuting under the charge of the 
ble to be = Professor L. H. Bailey sent a paper, but was 
. ht in person, 
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botany uae CORPORATION, dt a recent meeting, voted that the chair of 
¥the late Professor Daniel C. Eaton until his death should 
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