294: Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaoa, N. Y. 



the injured portion in an early stage of t3ie disease. The middle 

 leaf lias not readied its normal size, and looks as if it were sutfer- 

 ing from lack of water-. Tliis trouble is probably the disease 

 described as the soaitiiem blight by Professor B. D. Halsted, in 

 Bulletin 19, of the IMississippi Experiment Station. Specimens 

 were submitted to Professor Halsted, who thinks that the disease 

 is probably identical with the southern one. This is not the first 

 record of the occun'ence of the disease in the north. In a recent 

 issue of Garden and Forest,* Professor Halsted reports it fi'om 

 Syracuse, N. Y., where it had invaded three tomato fields. Appar- 

 ently the same disease has been repoi'ted to me from tJtu'ee 

 localities in this State during the last two seasons, and in two 

 cases it had practically ruined the crop. This disease is probably 

 due to a microbe, and it is therefore doubtful if spraying will be 

 effective. Professor Halsted thinlvs that the same disease is one 

 of the blights of the potato. Infected vines should be gathered 

 and burned in the fall, and as a precautionary measure tomatoes 

 or potatoes should not be grown upon the same land for two or; 

 three years. 



18. Impressions of varieties. — The Ignotum is still our best 

 main-crop tomato. 



Among the new kinds, a variety called Nichol No. 5, sent us 

 by A. M. Nichol, Granville, Ohio, was the best. It is scai'cely 

 distinguishable from Mikado in foliage and fruit, except that the 

 fruit is more regular and uniform in size. 



Plentiful (Perry & Co.). A good red tomato, from medium to 

 large in size, but inclined to crack about the stem. Appears to 

 possess few superlative merits. An English variety. 



Telegraph (Salzer, 1891). A medium to small tomato, irregu- 

 lar, not uniform in size and shape; cracks very badly. A weak 

 grower. Worthless with us. 



Picture Rock (Childs). A good, dark red, regular tomato, much 

 like the Volunteer, but apparently no improvement upon that 

 variety. There is a slight tendency upon some fruits to assume 

 yellow markings, in bars, about the stem. 



* Garden and Forest, v. 379 (Aug. 10, 1892). 



