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certain that the appearance of the disease in England is merely a matter 

 of time. 



As regards the outbreaks of the disease on the Continent, the 

 following facts are to hand : 



Russia— Professor Bucholtz wrote to me in July 1904 : " This year 

 all the gooseberries in the neighbourhood of Riga have been attacked and 

 destroyed by the fungus." Professor A. de Jaczewski, at the Seventh 

 International Congress of Agriculture at Rome in 1903, read a paper in 

 which evidence was brought forward virtually establishing the intro- 

 duction of the fungus into Russia on diseased gooseberry bushes imported 

 by nurserymen from America, 



Fig. 35. — Outline Map of Ireland, showing the Areas affected by the 

 American Gooseberry-mildew. 



h Coleraine, Co. Derry ; 2. Castledown, Co. Deny ; 3. Ballymena, J Co. 

 Antrim ; 4. Antrim, Co. Antrim ; 4*. Killagan, Co. Antrim ; 5. Co. Down ; 

 6. Co. Cavan; 7. Athlone, Co. Westmeath'; 8. Tara, Co. Meath ; 9. Fox- 

 rock, Co. Dublin ; 10. Abbeyleix, Queen's Co. ; 11. Co. Wexford. Also 

 reported from Lissanoure and Broghahan, Co. Antrim ; Aghadoey, Co. 

 Derry ; Co. Louth and Co. Carlow. 



Germany. — Professor Aderhold recorded in July 1905, for the first 

 time in Germany, the appearance of the disease at Labischin, near Brom- 

 berg (Posen). The disease is believed to have been introduced in this 

 case from Russia. The entire loss of the gooseberry crop resulted in 

 some instances. A fully illustrated leaflet describing the disease, and 

 recommending the destruction by burning of affected bushes, is being 

 circulated through Germany. 



Poland. — Chelchowski reported in 1902 the occurrence of the disease 

 for the first time in Poland, in the governments of Lomza and Siedlce. 

 By 1905 the disease had spread to the governments of Curland, Kowno, 

 Wilna, Volhynia, and Podolia. 



Denmark. — In 1904 Rostrup reported the occurrence of the disease 

 for the first time in Denmark, from two localities — Tikob-Egnen and 

 Starnholt. In both instances where the outbreak occurred the bushes 



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