UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 727 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



December 18, 1918 



ANTHRACNOSE OF CUCURBITS 



By 



M. W. GARDNER, Scientific Assistant 

 Cotton, Truck, and Forage Crop Disease Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 Scope of the Investigation . ..... 1 



The Disease 2 



The Causal Organism 12 



Relation of the Fungus to the Host 

 Tissue 24 



Page 

 Life History of the Causal Organism in 



Relation to the Disease 29 



Control 58 



Summary 62 



Literature Cited 65 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1918 



