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Harry Kenton Mein, of Messrs. Stuart & Mein, Kelso, informs me 

 that he has quite destroyed the parasite on the leaves by washing 

 them with Condy's fluid. I tried the plan of leaving the plants 

 just where they flowered in the open garden for the winters of 

 1887 and 1888, and no trace of fuDgus appeared during the 



Fig. 37. — Puccinia malvacearum— highly magnified. 



growing and flowering seasons of 1888-9 ; but we lost many 

 plants during the winters. In the autumn of 1889 I had all the 

 plants lifted and planted in flower-pots, and we propagated plants 

 from cuttings last February. They were placed in a forcing- 

 house to form roots, and, to my extreme vexation, the disease 



