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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[January, 
seem of various sizes, sometimes so long as 
to traverse the whole discovered spots, many 
dead, but some in active motion. More might 
doubtless be made out from specimens gathered 
at once. I have not seon fully developed 
which may be infested by the worm. This is 
the more probable, as so many of Dr. Bastian's 
numerous nematoids occur in soil about tho 
roots of plants.” 
At this point the subject was taken up by 
carnation DISEASE, (From the Gardeners’ Chronicle.) 
females with eggs, but I believe that I have 
here and there found groups of oblong eggs, 
some ruptured at one end, as if the parasite 
had escaped. The only remedy is clearly 
death by burning, and not planting in the soil, 
Mr. Worthington G. Smith, who wrote in the 
same journal (xvi. 721):—“The accompany¬ 
ing illustration is an attempt to show the 
nature of the disease of Carnations adverted 
to by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley in the Gar- 
