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Young plants of red cedar, and certain other species of orna- 
mental conifers, have been subject recently to a disease which 
has ane great loss in a ts of nurseries. This seems to 
be due a species of P, a microscopic paraane fungus. 
ae has had little res on 7 cabelas its attacks. 
China marking pencils, which in black, blue, and red colors 
may be obtained at slight expense, have been found very useful 
oF eee drawings, diagrams, or other markings on lantern 
The pencil should be properly pointed and must not be 
a fits the glass while drawing. A mistake is easily erased 
with the finger or a blunt piece of woo 
English walnuts are often attacked by Armillaria root-rot, 
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the base of the trees and the soil filled in, an the fungus is 
prevented from entering the ae trunks, 
t lice were unusually abundant during July, both on 
herbaceous pla trees orway maples were att 
m to such an extent that the leaves were continually falling 
and the ground beneath was covered with rayin, 
P 
with a solution of any kind of soap, one ae to eight gallons of 
water, is the simplest treatment for plant lic 
It is stated on good authority that nearly 100,000,000 bushels of 
wheat and oats are destroyed annually by grain smuts, which 
could easily be prevented by the simple and inexpensive formalde- 
hyde treatment of seed. The tiny spores of the smut-fungus 
ane Gap prevents the germination of the spores but ioe not 
affect the seed 
A disease of narcissus which has been attributed to a species 
of Fusarium, a microscopic fungus, is now known to be due to a 
