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York [etc.]. 

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1!K)5-14. bactekia in relation to plant disea.ses. 3 v. Washington, D. C. 

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SOBAIEK, P. 



l!)(i;». handbuch deb pflanzenkrankiieiten. Aufl. 3, Bd. 1. Berlin. 



WiNFIKLD, II. 



1899. the OIL OF MAIZE ( zEA MAYS I. 49 p. Eastoii, Pa. (Thesis, Colum- 

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Besley, H. J., and Baston, G. H. 



1914. ACII>ITY as a FACTOK in nFrrEBMININO THE DECREE OF SOUNDNESS OT 



coKN. U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 102, 45 p., illus. 

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11KI9. THE SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY OF THE COVERINGS OF THE SEEDS OF HOB- 



iJEUM vui-GAHE. lUi.v. Soc. [rx)n(l<in] I'roe. (B) 81 : 82-93, illus. 

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i'.kju. kiei,d tests of varipnks of wheat, covering nineteen years. lud. 

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Dodge, B. O. a root-rot disease of apple sjzedlings. Paper presented at 71st 

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Smith. E. V. bacteria in relation to plant nisuvsFis. 1: 02. 1905; 2: 69, 

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Citrus articulata Willd., 1S2(;. Spieng., Syst. Veg., 3:334. 



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