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as that I saw at Runton, it would long ere this have made its 
home on some one of the many Whin bushes on the West Norfolk 
Heath. The presumption is that these two species of Dodder are 
biologically distinct. 
With regard, then, to the Wheat Mildews. Is Eriksson right in 
his view of their biological distinctness? and again, How do the 
Mahonia berries become affected ? Or, is the Australian disease 
a different one from that which we have in England ? 
Why do we have mildew years ? What are the predisposing 
causes of the Wheat plant to mildew ? 
These questions will have some day to be answered. 
Why should not this work be done in England? — with all 
our boasted advance in agriculture, with our County Councils, and 
our Technical Education Committees. Here is a matter of great 
practical importance, and yet I greatly fear no one will be found 
to take it up. Our agriculturists are wringing their hands in 
despair, on account of the “ badness of the times ; ” our land- 
owners are for the same reason plunging their hands into their 
empty pockets ; our young men are taught science in well nigh 
every school ; but not one, I venture to say, will be found willing 
to complete our knowledge of the Wheat Mildew. 
