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Mycologia 



in the United States while Professor Morse and Professor Tor- 

 rey took photographs. This remarkable tree is 30 feet in circum- 

 ference, 97 feet high, and 250 years old, the branches spreading 

 75 feet from the trunk in all directions. It stands on the edge of 

 the highway without protection of any kind. 



Elms, sugar maples, and plane-trees were the commonest road- 

 side trees in the regions visited, many of them being old and very 

 handsome. A sugar maple was seen at Wapping that measured 

 17 feet in circumference and 80 feet in height. On account of 

 the wet season, fruit-bodies of large fungi were common on the 

 trunks of various trees, Fomes popiilinus being often observed 

 on sugar maples and Spongipellis galactinus on apple trees. Both 

 of these polypores are white and visible at long distances. Many 

 examples of bad tree doctoring were in evidence along the prin- 

 cipal highways. 



Lunch was taken in Hartford near the Morgan Memorial, after 

 which we left at top speed for Storrs, finely located among the 

 hills with a broad view of the surrounding mountains and valleys. 

 The only dining-room in the place has a reputation for closing 

 very promptly, hence our haste. All of the remaining daylight 

 was utilized in inspecting the potato fields, orchards, greenhouses, 

 dahlia garden, and botanical garden, under the guidance of Pro- 

 fessors Slate, Hollister, Eraser, and Sinnott. 



The evening session was devoted to a historical sketch of 

 tobacco growing in Connecticut, by Dr. Jenkins, and a discussion 

 of potato, tobacco, and market garden diseases by Messrs. Morse, 

 Chapman, and others. Dr. Olive also discussed the relation of 

 the botanical garden to the public. 



Thursday was a very important field day, devoted chiefly to 

 tobacco. Leaving Storrs shortly before nine, the first stop was 

 made at East Windsor Hill to see the fields of broad leaf tobacco 

 in that vicinity and the Haviland plantation of tent Cuban tobacco, 

 with narrow leaves. 



Considerable " rust," or burn," was found on tobacco grown 

 in the open. Many of the upper leaves were scalded like maple 

 leaves on a hot day after a spell of rainy weather. Some showed 

 small brown spots and others white spots, the latter resembling 



