Diseases and Injuries 



ually drying up and turning a whitish brown. While at times the branch 

 rot causes much damage, it is not so disastrous as the stem rot. 



Carnation Leaves Affected with Fusarium Leaf-Spot 



EXTRACT FROM BULLETIN NO. 164, DEC., 1899, OF NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL 

 EXPERIMENT STATION. 



A FUSARIUM LEAF-SPOT OF CARNATIONS, BY PROF. F. C. STEWART. 



"A very unusual case of Fusarium attacking carnation foliage was observed in a 

 greenhouse at Syracuse last November. A bench of carnations of the variety Emily Pier- 

 son was quite seriously affected with a peculiar leaf spot. The spots varied in length from 

 one-eighth of an inch to one inch. The smaller ones were elliptical, but the larger ones 

 occupied the entire width of the leaf and were irregular at the ends. They were covered 

 with a pinkish gray mold and irregularly dotted at the center with the light yellow spore 



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