form of minute brown spots, those soon increase in size and become 

 sunk or depressed at the rent re. the epidermis becomes broken up into 

 minute white downy particles, and as the disease extends the shouts 

 become almost - are short, and the development of 



the leaves arrested, not expanding, of a harsh, brittle texture, and 

 hairy below. Thepres be one known 



as " black-rot," although the two have by some authorities been 

 considered to be identical. The following method of treatment has 



before the buds open, the plants should be thoroughly sponged with a 

 50 per cent, solution of sulphate of iron in water ; the atmosphere at 

 this time should be kept damp. When the young shoots are about six 

 inches long they should be dusted with ; lowers of sulphur, and if the 

 disease makes headway, the dusting should be repeated, the sulphur 

 being mixed with an equal quantity of powdered lime. Very badly 

 diseased plants should be removed and burnt, as such are not amenable 

 to the above or any other mode of treatment. A detailed account of 

 this disease, also prc\ontive methods and treatment, is given by Viala. 

 \_Lcs maladies tie la Vignc. Masson : Paris.] 



Extract of Chestnut Bark.— In a Foreign Office Report [No. 1270, 

 Annual Series. 1*93] the following particulars are given respecting this 

 new tanning material prepared in the neighbourhood of St. Malo, 

 France: — "Ti - chiefly sent to Belgium, 



" though a Glasgow house has taken some of late. ' It is used in the 

 " process of tanning leather, being made of the bark of chestnut trees. 

 " The export has reached lot) tons to 200 tons per month, and it is 

 " expected that the new manufactory of this essence now about to be 

 " opened at Dinan will double the export hence. The only manufactory 

 '• in this district at present is a i Montreuil-siii-llle in tie- . 

 This information supplements that conveyed in a F. O. Report [No. 578, 

 Annual Series, iSSi) | on the t ratio of Corsica, where it is ■stated that 

 " Chestnut extracts (from Ajaeeio) for tanning purposes have been in 

 " demand ; ,: > have been shippt d."' 



it is said that these Chestnut extracts are used for tanning purposes 

 to modify the colour produced by Hemlock extract (obtained from the 

 hemlock spruce ( Tsnya c 



RosO-growing and pressing in Saxony. — The experimental rose phut- 



i, h 1 'lit s ,l f s that ti c\ ire, the B. Igi in Con id 



xtended. The plants have thriven well through the long an i severe 



r has been shown that it was a false idea to suppose that these (lowers 

 .vpnre < >riontal heat to prosper and acquire a delicate perfume; the 



jtpej tmenJ i at ire, and even 



operation tins summer. Provision is made 1 

 piote the Consul—" with 50,000 kilogs. of leav 

 about 40 kilogs. of oil, water, and noraade 



