PLANT BACTERIA, VOL. 2. PLATE 16. 
Wilt of Cucurbits. 
Hothouse-cucumbers inoculated with Bacillus tracheiphilus Sept. 1,- 1894, by direct infection from cut surface of 
diseased stems brought in from a field, bacteria being introduced by needle-pricks on blade of one leaf. 
(1) Plant No. 4, inoculated with white sticky ooze from stem of cucumber. Photographed thirteenth day after inoculation—3 blades 
shriveled, 3 wilting, and 4 normal. 
(2) Plant No. 8, inoculated with white sticky ooze from a squash-stem. Photographed on thirteenth day when all the leaves had shriveled. 
Photographs about } natural size. 
