THE GARDEN I ISO WORLD 
February 23 , 1907 . 
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The American Gooseberry Mildew. 
Professor E. S. Salmon, F.L.S., myco¬ 
logist to the South Eastern Agricultural 
College, Wye, Kent, sends us reprints of 
some additional matter respecting the oc¬ 
currence of the American Gooseberry Mil¬ 
dew on the Continent. He still adheres 
to the opinion that the disease is of Ameri¬ 
can origin, and not native to either Britain 
or Continental Europe. The mycologists 
in the various European countries have 
evidently been wide awake in noticing and 
recording the presence of the mildew in 
their midst, and also its contagious and 
destructive character. Last year Dr. W. 
Be iter, of the Kaiser Wilhelm Agricul¬ 
tural institute at Bromberg, was specially 
appointed to make investigations concern¬ 
ing the outbreak and progress of the 
disease. The first outbreak in Russia 
occurred in 1900; in Denmark in 1902 ; in 
Sweden in 1905 ; and in Finland in 1904. 
in Germany the first outbreak occurred 
on the Baltic coast. Inundated and wet 
areas he considers the most liable to at¬ 
tack, and that may explain the destructive 
effect of the disease in Ireland, where it 
has been giving an immensity of trouble 
foT some years. 
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The Lilac. — Like the Tulip, the Lilac 
came to us from the East, via Turkey, in 
the 16th century. Its name, in any case, 
is Persian. Probably the first mention 
of it in English is in Bacon’s Essay on 
gardens; he favoured the spelling 
“ lelackc.” 
The Veitch Memorial Trust. — At a 
recent meeting of the trustees a gold 
medal was unanimously awarded to Mr 
Worthington Smith in recognition of his 
invaluable services ■ to horticulture. At 
the same meeting a most welcome addition 
to the funds of the Lindley Library 
Trustees, in the shape of a donation of 
^25, was made, and arrangements made 
for the presentation of prizes at the 
.special meeting of the York Gala to be 
held next year (1908). Mr. J. G. Baker, 
Kew, was also awarded a gold medal. 
Director at Wisley Laboratory.— 
We are pleased to learn that Mr. J. F. 
Chittenden has been appointed the first 
director of the R.H.S. laboratory at 
Wisley, Surrey. For many years past Mr. 
Chittenden has been assistant teacher on 
the biological staff at the Essex Technical 
Laboratories, and when the Rev. Professor 
George Henslow resigned the secretary¬ 
ship of the Scientific Committee of the 
R.H.S. Mr. Chittenden took his place. 
He has had a good schooling in botanical 
science at Chelmsford, and we hope he 
will be instrumental in elucidating many 
of the difficulties relating to horticulture 
and plant life. We hope also that this 
will be a commencement to plant research 
and direct connection with the problems 
of horticulture that will help to place 
Great Britain more on the same status as 
the United States than it hitherto has 
been. 
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Winter Flowering Bulb 
Sternbergia fischeriana. 
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The oldest and best known Sternbergia 
flowers in autumn and resembles yellow 
Crocus, and has, indeed, been termed 
such as a popular name. I he species 
under notice is a native of Asia Minor, 
and differs by having much larger, more 
expanded flowers that open during the 
winter or early spring months. Being 
subject to the conditions of our winter, 
the flowering may actually take place in 
February or March, sometimes even 
earlier, as it all depends upon the mild¬ 
ness or otherwise of the weather. I his 
species seems even more tolerant of culti¬ 
vation under different conditions than the 
common one, for it may be used as a pot 
plant or for beds or borders in the open. 
No fire heat is necessary, but the mere 
aid of glass enables the flowers to ex¬ 
pand earlier in the year, and to remain 
fresh for a long time, because they do 
not get alternately frozen and thawed, nor 
are they subject to wind and rain. 
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Silver Leaf of Plum.— According to 
the sixth report of the \\ oburn Experi¬ 
mental Fruit Farm this malady can be 
conveyed from one Plum tree to another 
by inoculation with small portions of the 
fungus. Forty-eight trees were inocu¬ 
lated with the fungus at various periods 
between January and July, and after a 
few weeks thirty-nine of these trees 
showed that they were affected with the 
silver leaf disease. The remaining sixty- 
four in the plantation were left uninocu¬ 
lated, and did not show the disease. 
