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The same care and attention should be given to prevent injury 
from fumigation that is used by lettuce growers in preven ting 
ten ssu opburn 
however, counteracted by properly ssuating the heat a nd light 
siti der which t other words, 
by obviating the production if cendé r and  Siaaline plants. 
This is accomplished by pea lower night temperature during 
cloudy periods and also by giving the plants more air either 
difference of a few dene rees in the night temperature has a 
marked effect in the development of the texture of tissue, es- 
pecially in a rapidly growing crop. Lettuce growers generally 
- en lower. This night temperature induces a fi 
rectus: and with proper seus of the day temperature 
there is no danger fr 
plant more suscept! tible to injury from fumigation 
than others. Plants with ne foliage or those that have been 
forced are more likely to suffer injury. The y to any plant, 
however, may tly decreased or entirely obviated by the 
ever, ™: e grea 
ue consideration of the conditions of development and the 
daily periodicity of the plant’s activity in the regulation of the 
dosage and the time of application 
G. E, STONE 
AMHERST, Mass. 
NELSON SMITH 
Mr. Nelson Smith, one of the original incorporators of the 
New York el Garden, died at his home in New York City 
on February 28, 1916, in his eighty-eighth year. He was born 
in the township of Middletown, peau County, New York, 
