308 botanical gazette. [ December, 



because this arrangement v?as mutually helpful. Students 

 when advanced can do some of the station work, under 

 guidance, and thus increase the mass of facts desired by the 

 station, while at the same time learning how to investigate. 

 Dr. Bessey has been able to obtain much good work for bul- 

 letins in this way. The opinion prevailed that the station 

 worker should not be burdened with large elementary class- 

 es, but a few advanced laboratory students are an advan- 

 tage, especially if there are no regular assistants. 



A paper was next presented by Prof. McCarthy upon 

 ted-testing, giving results of extended experiments in this 

 direction, accompanied by an explanation of a seed-testing 

 pan placed on exhibition. Prof. Chester reported upon tests 

 ot seeds he had made, and was convinced that this line of 

 work had been much neglected. Good-looking sorghum 

 seed, for example, proved worthless, and much of the tested 

 grass seed contained only twenty-live per cent, of good seed. 

 Professor Scribner thought that seed-testing in itself was not 

 proper work for the station botanist. Dr. Arthur stated that 

 in his opinion we do not need seed-control stations in this 



country. Prof. McC " ~ 



-esolution : 



V.WU.1U \ . iiui. ivic^artny onereci the following resolution . 

 " That the chair appoint a committee of chree to consider and 

 recommend a uniform method of testing seeds and recording 

 results." Professors Arthur, McCarthy and Chester consti- 

 tute said committee, to report at the next annual meeting. 



The balance of the time was occupied in individual reports 

 of work clone during the past year. Professor Galloway pre- 

 sented a report of the advances made in his section of veg- 

 etable pathology : 



The work of the section is divided into two branches, 

 namely: laboratory investigation-^ and field experiments. 

 Atter a subject is investigated in the laboratory, special 

 agents in different parts of the country are selected to con- 

 duct experiments in treatment, these to be based upon the 

 result of the laboratory work. During the present season 



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Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, California; and the princi 

 pal maladies under treatment were black-rot, downy mil- 

 dew and anthracnose of the grape ; powderv mildew, scab, 

 rust and bitter-rot of the apple; potato-blight and rot; pear 

 leaf-blight ; quince leaf-blight ; and strawberry leaf-blight, or 

 rust, as it is more commonly called. Concerning black-rot, 

 the result of the season's work has shown that the Bordeaux 



