P. A. VAN DER BlJL 



287 



On the 2nd December Mr Bell inspected the plots and wrote " noticed 

 that a fail number of plants had died, though in some cases evidently 

 from drought, from inherent weakness as well as from disease." 



On Deoember 21st he counted the surviving plants and submitted 

 the following report: "Those unmistakably diseased were counted 

 separately from the apparently healthy plants, and as far as my 

 judgment went a distinction being made between 'Wilt' and 'Eel- 

 worm.'" Mr Bell's results are tabulated below 1 . 



Report on Plots examined 2lst December, 1914. 



Totals 



1020 



478 



28 



116 



397 



1 [The numbers given in the tables are not in all cases exactly correct, as the 

 horizontal and vertical totals do not always agree with the sums of the items (Ed.).] 



