October  13,  1898. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE 
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THE  NEW  CHRYSANTHEMUM 
SCOURGE. 
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AS  will  be  seen  on  subsequent  pages  of  the 
present  issue,  serious  attention  has  at  last 
j  been  paid  by  the  N.C.S.  to  the  insidious  and 
destructive  visitant  of  the  Chrysanthemum,  known 
as  the  Rust  Fungus.  We  have  from  time  to  time, 
and  many  times,  referred  to  the  subject,  pointing 
out  the  nature  of  the  invader,  aad  suggesting 
preventive,  palliative,  and  remedial  measures,  which 
after  experiments  with  them,  and  many  others, 
had  b;  en  found  to  best  answer  the  desired  object. 
Twelve  months  a:o  we  illustrated  leaves  of 
Chrysanthemum,  Artemisia,  arid  Carduus,  as  in¬ 
fested  with  rust  fungus,  from  sketches  supplied 
by  Mr.  G.  Abbey,  who  had  examined  the  leaves 
microscopically,  and  he  also  sketched  what  ho 
found  in  them  in  the  form  of  spores,  these  being 
necessarily  enlarged  for  showing  their  character, 
germination,  and  the  permeation  of  myc  lia  threads 
through  the  leaf  to  its  more  or  less  rapid 
destruction.  As  the  Chrysanthemum  leaves  were 
the  first  we  had  received  similarly  affected,  we 
asked  for  them  close  and  careful  examination. 
This  was  given,  with  the  result  of  the  illusl rations, 
the  first  of  the  kind,  we  understand,  published 
eluffdatory  of  the  subject. 
Mr.  Abbey,  who  appears  to  he  an  untiring  in¬ 
vestigator,  and  a  close  student  of  minute  organisms, 
after  satistying  hin.self  of  the  nature,  if  not  of  the 
identity,  of  the  invading  fungus,  sought  for  infested 
leaves  of  others  of  the  Compositae  for  comparison, 
and  he  appears  to  have  concluded  that  there  was 
little  or  no  difference  between  the  attacking  foe  in 
any  of  them. 
We  do  not  know  that  it  greatly  matters  from  the 
Chrysanthemum  grower’s  point  of  view  whether 
that  is  so  or  not,  so  long  as  he  knows  the  nature  of 
the  infestation  and  method  of  preventing  or  sub¬ 
duing  it.  ‘  But  investigators  are  prone  to  go  far 
beyond  such  materialistic  limitations,  and  search 
assiduously  to  discover  the  names  of  what  the 
microscope  reveals  to  them,  and  then  if  they  can 
find  none  in  existing  species  of  fungi  on  allied 
plants  to  meet  the  case,  what  are  thought  to  be 
No.  2611.— Vol.  XCIX.,  Old  Series. 
No.  955. — Vol.  XXXVII.,  Third  Series. 
