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with Bordeaux mixture than the others, this treatment is especially val- 

 uable in New Jersey. Bitter rot, which rots some berries on the vines 

 and more in storage, and end rot are the leading cranberry rots in Massa- 

 chusetts. End rot, a late storage rot, is the only serious cranberry rot 

 in Wisconsin and on the Pacific Coast. The relative scarcity of the earlier 

 rots accounts largely for the success of the Searls varietyi3 and of water 

 scooping- in Wisconsin and for the greater popularity of the McFarlin 

 variety in the West than in the East. 



Fig. 21. 

 LEFT: Witches' Broom Growth Caused by the False Blossom Disease. 

 RIGHT: Flower Development of Vines with False Blossom. 



Fig. 22. Blunt-nosed Leafhoppers. 

 This insect carries the false blossom disease. 



New bogs never should be planted with vines having either false blossom 

 or rose bloom. These are the important non-putrefactive cranberry dis- 

 eases. Both often greatly lower the vitality of the vines and reduce fruit 



1* Thip variety has not succeeded in the East because of the rotting of its fruit here. 



