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Bulletin 79. 



Crescent, I imagine, will not hold its own so long as the Wilson 

 has. Michel and Parker Earle, amongst the newer kinds, have 

 distinct merits, one for its earliness and the other for its lateness 

 and generally desirable qualities. Sharpless is passing out, whilst 

 Bubach, Haverland and Warfield are holding their own. 



II. I.EAF-BLIGHT. 



Forty-two of the no persons^ are troubled with the blight or 

 rust of strawberry foliage. This shows that the trouble is rather 

 serious. It is not uniformly spread over the state, however. 

 Most of the replies in Monroe, Ontario and Wayne counties say 



Bubach. 



Warfield. 



that the rust is not prevalent. In other places, it seems to have 

 almost driven out the Wilson. 



This blight is a fungus {Sph^rella Fragari^), the life history of 

 which is discussed in Bulletin XIV. of this station (December, 

 1889). The spots showing fungous attack are brownish at first! 

 but afterwards become dry and whitish, with a circle of red ; and 

 finally the entire leaf assumes a red-spotted or red-disco'lored 

 appearance. The blight does its worst mischief in the summer 

 after the fruit is oflf, by preventing growth and lessening the crop 

 of the following year. The disease usually begins to attack the 

 leaves before the fruit is off, however, and in some cases even 



