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new disease of tlie grape, which [was] generally referred U) under 

 the name of ' blight ' or ' rust." " In tlie j()ur>hil of Mycology *'^ of 

 January 6, 1S91, was publislied I'airehild's first report on tiiis 

 and other grape diseases whicii he found there. Western New 

 York was a center of pomological industry. Scribner and Viaia 

 had made some of their most important studies there. Arthur, 

 Goff, and now William R. Dudley of the agricultural experiment 

 stations at Geneva and Cornell University had established investi- 

 gations in plant pathology on a state-wide basis. Soon the 

 celebrated work of M. B. Waite on the life-history of the pear 

 blight organism, ^nd its transmission, would culminate at Brock- 

 port. From experiments on flower buds of the pear, he would 

 prove that the germs, or bacterial infection, are distributed by 

 insects. ■*' 



On April 12, 1891, Smith, at Dover, Delaware, reported to 

 Galloway that he was "in good season to study the effect of 

 yellows on the blossoming," and that he should make good 

 progress studying his mapped peach orchards. Again he was 

 delivering lectures before farmers' institutes and horticultural 

 societies. Scientific information concerning the disease, projected 

 remedies, and control by legislation were much under discussion. 

 Delaware had a law which applied to the lower half of the state. 

 In the January 1891 issue of American Gardening, the editor. 

 Liberty Hyde Bailey, had written an article, " Peaches and Yellows 

 in the Chesapeake Country," in which he commended and de- 

 scribed Smith's work. Bailey reminded his readers that Michigan, 

 New York, and Virginia had definite yellows laws. In Michigan 

 the value of required eradication, enforced by law, had been 

 demonstrated, whereas the absence of such legislation was pain- 

 fully evident when the havoc wrought by the disease in this 

 beautiful Chesapeake country was examined. The more important 

 was this since the region was regarded as part of one of the 

 w^orld's most productive peach-growing centers. 



Soon after receiving Smith's letter of April 12, Galloway went 

 over to Dr. Maxwell's orchard at Still Pond, Maryland, and there 

 found Fairchild and P. H. Dorsett applying new fungicidal treat- 

 ments to pear diseases in the experimental area. Fairchild soon 

 left for Geneva, New York, and Galloway told Smith to send to 



"6 (3): 95-99. 



*^ Report of the Chief of the Division of Vegetable Pathology for 1891: 372-373. 



