NOTES FROM THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT.* 
KB. C. STEWART AND H. J. EUSTACE. 
SUMMARY. 
I. In a nursery cellar at Rochester 25,000 pear trees were 
seriously injured by thawing too suddenly. The sand covering 
the roots of the trees had become frozen, and in order to facili- 
tate the removal of the trees a fire was built in the cellar. A 
few days later it was found that the upper parts of all the trees 
had turned black. Although the trees were practically unin- 
jured for planting, it was impossible to dispose of them at 
wholesale, and they were almost a total loss to their owner, 
II. The shot-hole fungus so destructive to the foliage of cher- 
ries and plums has been discovered attacking the fruit-pedicels 
of cherries. This discovery is of considerable scientific interest, 
but it has little or no practical bearing on the control of the 
disease. 
lil. The fungus of antirrhinum anthracnose which was sup- 
posed to be confined exclusively to the antirrhinum has recently 
been found on a common weed called yellow toad-flax. Since 
this weed may communicate the disease to the antirrhinum, the 
treatment of the disease on the latter is a more complicated mat- 
ter than has been supposed. 
IV. It has been observed that imperfectly fertilized peaches 
may attain considerable size and remain hanging on the trees 
until September. In such cases this trouble may be mistaken 
for the “little peach” disease by persons unfamiliar with the 
latter. However, in the “little peach” disease the pit is of 
normal size and provided with a well-developed kernel; while in 
*A reprint of Bulletin No. 200. 
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