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by the damp weather. The subject requires further 

 study. 



In this country this disease has been reported 

 from Michigan. New York, Maryland and Florida. 

 On Long Island, in 1889,* the cauliflower crop was 

 almost entirely destroyed by this disease, which was 

 attributed to the heavy rains at the time the plants 

 were heading. Some fields were a total loss, and 

 from the best fields many of the heads spoiled 

 before they reached the market. 



No satisfactory remedy is known for the disease. 

 The avoidance of damp soils and locations would 

 be of some benefit, but is hardly practicable with 

 the cauliflower. Wide planting is practiced on 

 Long Island in order to diminish the tendency to 

 the disease. It undoubtedly has this effect to some 



"^^ Country Gentleman, 1889, p 769, (from the Port 

 Jefferson Times, ^ept. 27): 



" Close upon the heels of a partial failure of the potato 

 crop through rotting comes the news from various points 

 on Eastern Long Island that the cauliflower crop has 

 almost totally failed through the same cause. In Manor- 

 ville the crop has not sufficiently developed in some of 

 the fields to warrant picking, and in Mattituck and east 

 of that place the rotting will result in an almost total 

 loss. In a few cases there is not yet any indication of 

 rot, but the farmers are afraid to tie the plants up lest 

 rotting ensue. 



" In East Moriches, Orient, and the near vicinity, the 

 yield will not be of sufficient value to pay for plowing 



