The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . IlO. 111.— DIOBYAXA X JIOSSIJE, (sEE P. 658.) asserting that there was a connection betweenthe mildew of corn and the presence of Berberybushes. The idea seemed so bizarre that itnaturally met with discredit, from now w-e know that the farmers were,if not altogtther right in their conclusions,yet not wholly WTong. The connection is notbetween the mildew of the corn and the Berbery tion between them might readily Ije deemedincredible at first sight. If the matter had beenpushed
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . IlO. 111.— DIOBYAXA X JIOSSIJE, (sEE P. 658.) asserting that there was a connection betweenthe mildew of corn and the presence of Berberybushes. The idea seemed so bizarre that itnaturally met with discredit, from now w-e know that the farmers were,if not altogtther right in their conclusions,yet not wholly WTong. The connection is notbetween the mildew of the corn and the Berbery tion between them might readily Ije deemedincredible at first sight. If the matter had beenpushed no further we should still be in the samestage of unsupported assertion on the one hand,and of incredulity on the other. Such a state ofaffairs is not consonant with nineteenth centuryideas. The matter must be put to the test,the truth must be elicited by experiment. of the Berbery have been proved over and overagain to be stages in the life history of one andthe same fungus, but similar proof has beenadduced in the case of very numerous other likeinstances. But it will be asked what is
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