96 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
disease gets into the orchards great loss is caused, as the condi- 
tions are fayourable to the rapid dissemination of fungus spores. 
. Salmon.deals in his Report with two of those fungus diseases 
that naNe already caused serious damage : erry-leaf Scorch 
( erythrostoma) and Apple Scab or “ Black Spot ” (Fusz- 
cladvwm pe ete As a remedy for these he recommends 
spraying with Bordeaux mixture, which Kills the fungus without 
injuring the fruit-trees. The attention of farmers is called to a 
We have already co Sonera i on Mr. Salmon’s praiseworthy efforts 
to rouse the country an e Government to a sense of the loss 
that will be caused if this desea is not stamped out before it has 
time to spread. Growers will not destroy their affected bushes 
unless they are stp me to do so, and any orders to be effectual 
must a universal. Various half-hearted recommendations have 
already been issued, but nothing drastic enough, Mr. Salmon con- 
siders, to meet the needs of the case. We again wish him all success 
in his struggles with Government . “Boards. Another pamphlet is 
devoted to the Seactivliok of a potato disease which has appeared 
= om rss ont within the last ten years. It forms black scabs on 
tube: mpletely destroying them, and is Seanad by a fungus 
(Chrysophlyetis endobiotica) which has sometimes been erroneously 
ed as omyces leproides, a totally different fungus. 
The disease 4 or ie widely in Scotland and the North of 
England, an ain Mr. Salmon pleads for Government inter- 
ference. The v sien papers are well illustrated by photographic 
veprodaioadi= L. 8. 
We have received a prospectus of A Survey and Record 
of Woolwich and West Kent, which is to be published, Boies 
at an early date, at 4s. net; subscriptions to be sent to Mr. 
Alexander Thomas, Town Hall, os ae “he Botany Section 
rance that the flowering plant records have been supe by 
some botanical rain! 7 the names of those who have mysee veers 
them are unfamiliar to British botanists. 
WE ee as the death of our contributor Mr. Jonny 
Bensow, who died on Feb. 10 at Uxbridge, within a month of his 
eighty soventh birthday. 
