Identifier: gardenerschronic81877lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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tbracnose beause it appears like dark burnt spots onthe leaves and branches of the Vine, and even on theGrapes themselves. In the first or conidious stagethe spots are white, and in the second stage they pre-sent the blackened and charcoal-like appearance thathas given the popular name to the disease. It belongsto a fungus named by Berkeley and CurtisPhoma uvicola. Its third condition is yet to beobserved. The disease has been introduced to Francewith young plants from America, and has now beenobserved in several places. The Vines are also attackedby another fungus named Cladosporium viticolumof Cesati, which may be recognised by its darkbrown velvety spots which have been known for someyears, and now it has been pointed out by Dr. Far-low at Boston that the French Vines in America areattacked by an ally of the Potato fungus in Perono-spora viticolum, which attacks the young shoots andbranches in the most destructive manner. M, Cornu October 13, 1877.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 465 1 I
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Fig. 91.—CASIMIROA epulis, NAT. size; one fruit cut transversely; crystals and cells of epidermis of fruit enlarged 160 DIAM, 466 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE (October 13, 1S77. dwelt on the great importance of the most carefulattention to the study of these diseases, and called forthe assistance of English mycologists in their observa-tion. The remarks were illustrated by most carefullyexecuted drawings of the fungi named above and illus-trations of their effects on the leaves, stems, and fruitof the Vine. ■■ It appears from a communication made tothe Brandenburg Society of Botanists that Collo-iMIA GRANDiFLORA, a North American plant, isthoroughly naturalised and exceedingly abundant insome parts of Germany. In very htony places itgrows only 2 to 6 inches high, and these plants bearexclusively cleistogamic flowers—that is, small closedflowers without petals, in v\^hich self-fertilisation musttake place. Where they are stronger they bear bothsmall closed flowers and ordinary open

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