84 Botany in the Experiment Station. 



Europe, and material is accruing for further studies on development 

 and for monographic work, but as these studies have been largely 

 made on the University side of the work they will not be more fully 

 reported here. 



Investigations on the Nixon Fund. 



The State Fund given to the Experiment Station under provision 

 of chapter 437 of the Laws of 1896 resulted in establishing a posi- 

 tion for an assistant in the Division of Botany in 1896, whose special 

 duty should be the investigation of diseases of plants caused by 

 parasitic fungi, and who should also take part in the educational 

 extension work among the farmers and horticulturists of the State. 

 This position has been held by several young men in succession. 



The first, Dr. E. J. Durand, was appointed in 1896. As a result 

 of his investigations an account of a serious disease of Currant Canes 

 was published as Bulletin No. 125, February, 1897. in which ihe 

 general and botanical characters of the disease are described and 

 illustrated, and remedial measures are recommended. 



Dr. B. ]\I. Duggar was appointed assistant in the year 1896-97. 

 His first work was published in Bulletin No. 132. as joint author 

 with Professor L. H. Bailey, Notes on Celery, March. 1897. The 

 investigations of Dr. Duggar here related to Two Destructive Celery 

 Blights, the early blight (Cercospora apii) and late Wight (Scptoria 

 petroseliui var. apii). The botanical and structural characters of 

 these parasites are described and illustrated, and remedies suggested 

 to prevent the trouble in the field and in storage where the late 

 blight is sometimes especially injurious. 



In 1898 the results of his studies on pear diseases were published 

 in Bulletin No. 145, Some Important Pear Diseases, February, ]8o8. 

 Four diseases were treated of here, — I>eaf Spot (Scptoria piricola 

 Desm.), heaf JjWght ( Enfouiosporiii II! uwcidatmii). Pear Scab(Fusi- 

 cladiuin pirinuiii (Lib., Fchl.). and Pear Blight (Bacillus amylovo- 

 nis Burrill). This was followed by Bulletin No. 163, Three Im- 

 portant Fungous Diseases of the Sugar Beet, February, 1899. These 

 are as follows: Root-Rot of Beets (Rhir-octnuia bcfac Kiibn), Leaf 

 Spot of the Beet (Cercospora hcticola Sacc.) and Beet Scab (Oos- 

 pora scabies Thaxter). This was a timely bulletin on the diseases 

 of this new crop for the State. The symptoms and characters of 

 the diseases are described and illustrated, and suggestions are made 

 for treatment. 



Bulletin No. 164, Peach Leaf Curl, and notes on the shot-hole 



