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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
A Text-book of Plant Diseases. By Gxorae Masser, F.L.S., 
Prin ca Riper (Cryptogams), Royal Herbarium, Kew. 
TeeaWor bh & Co. Gyo ps PP- xii, ‘Bs. 
and tropical countries. It gives under each disease preventive 
methods; this latter ‘evan pili be found of hie h value to 
horticulturists, foresters, and farmers, as nothing so com ete eal 
hitherto been p ublished in this country. In additi on, a 
number of nation neces a ore to sources whence fuller A sha 
may be obtained if des 
The illustrations, uae hundred in number, appear to be 
practically new, and ange produced by a “ half-tint process’’ are 
all remarkably well don b 
e work begins with an Introduction, which briefly descri 
the nature and mode of growth of fungi, with well selected an 
an niethods of s spraying are very am ds 
The body of the work consists of Geran ilnstrahions 19 
scale, and remedies against plant diseases, et and foreign. 
English names are given first, such as “damping off,” “Lima 
an mildew,” 5 ae ae &e., ifpiowed by he latest scien- 
tific names 
4 
Bary adopted Fiickel’s name in psoas i. p. 83, and so helped to 
fix an erroneous new name. The so-called Haoascus and members 
of the genus named Teticean + we have s oi indo observed to 
many instances pr and well illustrated. Further on in the 
volume, the woo y fungi of trees and timber are described, with 
ames, such as Poria, Fomes, &c., which one usually 
finds ia under chy Latter 
pee of a. of the Fungi enumerated as causing Diseases” as given 
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