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This is especially true if diseased turnips have been fed to the 

 stock. Storage in a dry, cool place, with piles not too large, 

 may also help to keep down the trouble. No doubt the character 

 of the season is a factor in the development of the disease. 



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 Soc. Eng. 64 : 297-300. 1903. [Illust.] 



2. Giissow, H. T. Phoma rot of turnip. Exp. Farms Ottawa Rept. 

 1912 : 202-4. 1912. 



3. Kirk, T. W. Diseases of Swede turnip. New Zealand Dept. Agr. 

 Div. Biol. Hort. Bull. 14 : 1-4. 1905. [Illust.] 



4. Potter, M. C. A new Phoma disease of the Swede. Journ. Bd. 

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5. Rostrup, E. Oversigt over Sygdomme hos Kulturplanter. Tidsskr. 

 Landokonom. 11:330. 1893. 



6. Rostrup, E. Phoma-Angriff bei Wurzelgewachsen. Zeitschr. 

 Pflanzenkr. 4 : 322-3. 1894. 



WISTAEIA, CHINESE, Wistaria chinensis. 



CROWN GALL, Bacterium tumefaciens Sm. & Towns. Although 

 we do not find the above host among those mentioned by Smith 

 as infected by the crown gall, yet so far as one can judge from 

 macroscopic examination, it is occasionally infected in this state. 

 Mr. Walden collected specimens in March, 1912, on plants 

 imported from Japan in one of the nurseries, and Dr. Britton 

 later brought us specimens from a plant grown in his yard. In 

 the latter case the galls were associated with an elongated, sunken 

 area of dead bark, and on this we found the fruiting pustules 

 of a fungus that agrees fairly well with Phoma seposita Sacc. 

 Whether the latter was present as a saprophyte or a parasite 

 was not determined, but probably it was the former, since we 

 have seen no references to it as causing injury. 



