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leaving nothing but a worthless stump, hence all must agree that root 

 grafted apple trees are much better than either top grafted or collar 

 budded apple trees, which are so liable to break off during a storm. 



After the Choral Union had rendered a selection in their best style, 

 the report of B. T. Galloway, of the Department of Agriculture, at Wash- 

 ington, on the "Black Rot of the Grape," was read by L. Chubbuck, of 

 St. Louis. 



BLACK ROT OF THE GRAPE AND ITS TREATMENT. 



BY B. T. GALLOWAY. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



It needs but little argument to convince you that the disease of the 

 vine commonly known as the black-rot is the worst enemy with which you 

 have to contend. For many years this insiduous foe has ravaged your 

 vinyards, devastated your crops and blasted your hopes. Thousands of 

 once flourishing vines have become worthless through its action and in 

 many cases whole districts have been forced to abandon grape growing 

 entirely on account of its baleful effects. 



I wish to inform you in the beginning that as yet little is known 

 concerning a sure remedy for this malady. The fact is that we are at pres- 

 sent just beginning to receive the first rays of light upon the subject, and 

 my object in preparing this paper is not to offer you a cure for the dis- 

 ease, but to give you a few simple facts in regard to the cause of the 

 malad}', and what has been accomplished in the way of combating it. 

 Before proceeding further, however, I desire to impress firmly upon your 

 minds the fact that — the black-rot is caused by a plant, a living, grow- 

 ing being which never originates spontaneously as man)- suppose, but 

 owes its existence, on the contrar\', to a parent which lived before it. 



