Identifier: journalofhorticu05hort (find matches)
Title: The journal of the Horticultural Society of London
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Horticultural Society of London Horticultural Society of London. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of London
Subjects: Gardening Botany Horticulture Fruit-culture
Publisher: London : Published for the Society, by Longman and Co
Contributing Library: Harvard Botany Libraries
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rdson some bulbs of Tulips which were attacked by SclerotiumCepce, Lib., and Sporotrichum polysporum, Link. I have laidbefore the Society of Biology an account of a disease very pre-valent in tulip-roots sent me by M. Rayer. I have clearly esta-blished the fact that it is due to parasitic fungi. In some betweenthe scales of the bulb I found a large number of globular grains,black and shining when fresh, and of the size of a grain of hemp.These parasitical bodies, already observed by Madame Libert inBelgium, and in England by Mr. Berkeley, upon bulbs, whosefurther development they had prevented, have been referred toSclerotium by these two cryptogamists. Other bulbs presentedas the cause of evil a very different parasite from the first. Theroots and the base of the scales were deformed by bundles ofwhite threads, which, examined under the microscope, belongedcertainly either to Sporotrichum polysporum, Lk., or to somevery nearly allied species. 26 MICOGRA.PHIC STUDY OF SAFFRON DISEASE.
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Dissections of Saffron Disease, from a drawing by M. Montagne. Thefigures magnified 300 diameters. 1, healthy cells, of which a is filledwith starch; 2, a diseased cell; 3, stratum of compressed cells. EXPERIMENT IN PACKING RIPE NECTARINES. 21 III. — Account of an Experiment in packing ripe fruit of theBoston Nectarine, in boxes surrounded with ice, and trans-witting it from Boston to London. By Robert Thompson. The following- is a copy of a letter from Stephen H. Perkins,Esq., Brookline, near Boston, Massachusetts. In the year 1821 my father, Samuel G. Perkins, who wasthen a corresponding member of the Horticultural Society, sentto the Secretary two plants, and a drawing, of a new variety ofNectarine, which was named in London the Boston Nectarine.One of the plants was sent to the garden of Mr. Knight, and oneto the garden of the Society, but, as I understand, neither hasever borne fruit. The garden in which this fruit is raised, onone tree spreading about 35 feet on the wall, andjournalofhorticu05hort

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