286 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Dothidella Ulmi.
Puccinia pulverulenta.
Puccinia suaveolens.
Puccinia fusca.
Puccinia Adoxae.
Phragmidium Rubi-idaei.
Ochropsora Sorbi.
Melampsora Helioscopiae.
Coleosporium Senecionis.
Coleosporium Campanulae.
Coleosporium Melampyri.
Ceuthospora Lauri.
Ceuthospora phacidioides.
Melanconium magnum.
(Helminthosporium Tiliae.
Sclerococcum sphaerale.
Sclerotium durum
(Botrytis cinerea).
a maple in the narrow lane near
Hale brinks ; Archer's piece,
Woodford.
Dead Elm leaves everywhere.
Walthamstow.
On Epilobium montanum. Our
garden Hoe Street.
In Mark House Field.
On the Forest near the Windmill.
In a thicket by the side of a field
near Hale End.
On raspberry leaves in our garden.
In the Lark.
In our garden, Hoe Street.
Garden Ivy House, Woodford.
In garden, Hale End House. On
Campanula glabrocarpa.
At Purfleet.
On leaves of the Prunus Lauro-
cerasus in the grove in our gar-
den, Hoe Street.
On the Forest.
On a Hornbeam on the Forest ; on
Epping Forest.
On dead sticks, chiefly Elm).
On the Forest.
On Heracleum verrucosum, Garden,
Ivy House.
In the early part of the nineteenth century a general survey
of the state of Agriculture in the country was undertaken. The
"General View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex. Drawn
up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and internal
improvement by the Secretary of the Board," was first published
in 1807. The Secretary of the Board at that time was Arthur
Young, who, in 1804, had issued a circular to farmers in which
twelve questions were asked about the incidence of rust on wheat.
One of these reads "Have you made any observations on the
Barberry, as locally affecting wheat?" It will be recalled
that at this period considerable interest was being shown in the
belief held by many farmers that barberry bushes somehow