406 XEW JERSEY Al^RICULTURAL COLLEGE 



Professor Arthur reports from Indiana: "The rust in Indiana did' 

 not appear very early this season, but it was general, probaljh' few 

 or no patches of plants escaping. While destructive, it does not 

 seem to have been uncommonly so. as might have Ijeen supposed 

 from the wet season. Xo c^cida have yet been found within the State. 

 Here at Spirit Lake (Iowa) I find the rust, but there is so little- 

 of it as to be economically unimportant. At Decorah, Iowa, as you 

 may l^e aware, ]\Ir. Holway found a?cida on onion leaves, close to 

 rusted asparagus plants (and nowhere else), which, in the light of 

 Mr. Sheldon's studies (reported in Science), appears to indicate that 

 asparagus rust is not confined to a single genus of host plants, at least 

 in the secidial stage. Whether Puccinia Porri is identical with Puc- 

 cinia Asparagi or not it would be rash to say. It is safer at present 

 to assume that they are distinct, but that the latter may occasionally 

 produce scidia on onion almost or quite like the gecidium -of P. Porri 

 in morphological characters." 



Doctor Burreli reports for Illinois : "The asparagus rust has ap- 

 peared in many new places in various parts of Illinois during the last 

 year, and it has been found within that time in quite a number of 

 places where it had l)een earlier introduced, l>ut of which we had no- 

 previous knowledge. I think, all told, there must be at least one hun- 

 dred separate locations of the disease now in our State. I have had 

 no practical experience in combatting it and have no definite knowl- 

 edge as to its extermination within our borders. It is true, however,, 

 that certain statements have been made by practical growers, going to 

 show that they have kept it down by spraying with Bordeaux mixture. 

 I have no definite evidence concerning anything about the disease now 

 save this fact — that it is evidently increasing consideraljly with us, and 

 I think it is doing a good deal of damage." 



For Iowa, Professor Pammel writes: "The Puccinia Asparagi is on 

 the increase, but I have no extensive reports from other sections of 

 the State, and I notice that additional plots are affected in this 

 vicinity." 



Professor Bessey writes for Nebraska : "Mr. John L. Sheldon, In- 

 structor in Botany in the School of Agriculture, who has made this 

 rust a special study for a number of yeai"^, says that there is not as 

 much this year as last. In regard to the possible connection between 

 the abundance of rust this year and the peculiarities of the season, he 

 says that of course this season has been wet and the rust less abundant. 

 Whether there is an}' connection between these two points he is not 



