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The winter seemed in some way to have weakened the spinach 

 crojp in the vicinity of Greens Farms, for there were reports 

 that several of the crops there failed because of the subsequent 

 action of the leaf mold fungus described in the Report for 1905, 

 page. 275. Mr. Joseph Adams, writing of this trouble, said : "I 

 have a patch of spinach (sown last September in connection with 

 Mr. L. P. Wakeman), which is practically worthless from a black 

 spot which covers the leaves. This is the worst I ever saw. This 

 piece contains about an acre, and we have another piece that is 

 not quite as bad." This fungus was identified by us previously as 

 Heterosporium variable Cke., and Professor Thaxter, who 

 examined these later specimens, writes that it was also described 

 by Cooke as Cladosporium subnodosum (see Grev. 17: 67. 1889). 



Specimens of strawberry plants were received about the 

 middle of June, both from Essex and Naugatuck, with complaints 

 that some trouble was killing off certain fields in those places. 

 Examination revealed no fungus or insect as responsible, but 

 showed that the rootlets were dead, while the crowns were 

 still alive. This was a trouble similar to that seen once before, 

 and discussed in the Report for 1905, page 276. Apparently 

 there was enough life and food in the crowns to put forth 

 leaves in the spring, but with the approach of warm weather 

 these suddenly died off from lack of moisture, etc. The trouble 

 seems to be due to winter injury of the roots, which had either 

 suffered from drought the previous year or else had not been 

 properly protected by snow or mulch during the winter. 



Weather Conditions in 1910. The winter of 1909-10 was 

 not especially severe on the whole, though one or two quite 

 cold spells were recorded in January. March proved to be 

 unusually warm and open, and the spring started early, but 

 afterwards cool, rainy weather in May kept back the vegetation 

 so that, as in the preceding spring, it was somewhat backward, 

 and developed an unusual amount of spring fungous troubles. 

 There were two very late frosts, in May and early June, that 

 did more or less injury to fruit blossoms in certain parts of 

 the state, especially cherries, apples and- strawberries, and also 

 killed or injured the foliage on certain shrubs, etc., especially 

 in low places. At Windsor we saw small scrub oaks whose 

 leaves were all killed as if by fire. Some injury to coniferous 

 plants was also observed, and no doubt much of the russeting 



