788 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The young fruit, as soon as the petals have dropped and while it has still 

 the elongated form characteristic of the earliest stages, loses its normal 

 green colour and becomes brown and shrivelled, sometimes almost black. 

 In such cases the stem of the young fruit is also attacked, the indications 

 being a brown coloration and a shrivelling and drying up in a curled 

 and distorted fashion. The fruits attacked at a little later stage also 

 assume an unnatural colour, but they do not dry up so readily or so 

 completely. If the fruit reaches the ripening stage the ripening is 

 characterised by unnatural colours. Instead of a rich transparent 

 creaminess, a leprous appearance in the early stages is seen, and when 

 at last the reds and purples appear they are not pure and transparent, but 

 have a dulness somewhat like that of raw meat. Most of the damage 

 is done before the Cherries are half-ripe, and the entire crop may be 

 destroyed. The fruit that reaches a marketable size has a more or less 

 unfavourable colour, and the flavour is decidedly flat if the fruit actually 

 contains the fungus, as it may do, and yet reach a marketable size. The 

 dead fruit hangs on for some time, but finally drops off. The foliage does 

 not appear to suffer much.— H. G. C. 



Diseases of Plants in Connecticut. By G. P. Clinton {U.S.A. 

 Dep. Agr. Exp. Stn. Connecticut, Report for 1903 ; with 28 plates). — 

 This is a most extensive and valuable report on the fungous diseases of 

 plants cultivated in Connecticut. It commences w T ith an introduction 

 setting forth the chief causes of injuries to plants. This is followed by 

 some account of parasitic fungi, their prevention, detailing the various 

 forms of fungicides, followed by notes on specific troubles. Here we have 

 upwards of 260 descriptions, more or less explicit, of the principal diseases 

 recognised in the State, with suggestions as to their treatment. At the 

 end of each notice there are references in most cases to previous reports 

 and bulletins in which that special disease has been noticed. 



We note that a species of mould, or mucedine, long known as a 

 saprophyte, and one of the most beautiful, called Botryosporium pulchrum, 

 is suspected of acting as a parasite on Tobacco, but for certainty on plants 

 of Vinca major. " The plants became so abundantly infested with the 

 fungus that they were all killed." Referring to the diseases of Violet, 

 the reporter observes that " the spot disease of Altemaria viola (G. & 

 D.) seems to be the chief trouble with greenhouse Violets in this State." 



The twenty-eight plates are a great acquisition to this useful report. 



M . G. C. 



Dyschoriste Hildebrandtii. By C. H. Wright {Bot, Mag. t. 7973).— 

 Native of East Tropical Africa. Nat. ord. Acanthacea ; tribe Ruelliece. 

 A shrub 3 feet high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; corolla lilac, with violet 

 streaks in the throat and on the lower lip. — G. H. 



Ecology Of Swamps. By S. M. Coulter (Rep. Missouri Bot. GarcL 

 pp. 39-71 ; pi. 1-24 ; 1904). — A comparison of the plant-associations of 

 various types of swamps in the central United States and Bermuda, 

 including a Tamarack and Black Spruce swamp, in which Larix americana 

 and Picea nigra are dominant ; an Arbor- vitas swamp with Thuya occi- 

 dental ; a Cypress-Tupelo gum swamp with Taxodium distichum and 



