AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT] STATION. 146 





Report of Botanist and Entomologist. 



Prof. F. L Harvey. 



Professor W. H. Jordan : 



Dear Sir — I have the honor to 8ubmit herewith my sixth annual 

 report as Botanist and Entomologist for the Experiment Station. The 

 demand for information about injurious fungi, weeds, forage plants 

 and injurious insect9 is increasing. More letters of inquiry were 

 received the past season than ever before. Many of these letters 

 were about insects and fungi already considered and figured in pre- 

 vious reports and from parties who must have had access to the 

 Station Reports. It is apparently less trouble to send specimens to 

 the Station lor examination and positive determination than to look 

 them up in the reports. Extensive and carefully detailed corre- 

 spondence must form an important feature of Station work. Such 

 letters are usually answered by referring to the published accounts 

 in the Station Reports. Spec'mens when new to the State are 

 reported upon in de'.ail, and if of sufficient interest are considered 

 and figured in the annual report. Below will be found tabulated 

 and considered the most important plants and insects that have 

 been studied the past season Toe season has not been marked by 

 the ex reme ravages of any insect, or the widespread prevalence of 

 any species of fungus, though some of those that gave trouble last 

 season have increased and a few have been added 10 the list of our 

 State pests. 



Pear- Leaf Blight seems to be spreading in the western part of the 

 State in the vicinity of Portland. Any whose pears crack open in 

 ripening will do well to read the article on this disease in Experi- 

 ment Station Reportj 1892, page 109. The Bean Anthracnose, a 

 disease that causes brownish spots upon snap beans, (especially the 

 white-podded varieties), was quite prevalent the past season. Tomato 

 Anthracnose, a fungus attacking lipening and ripe tomatoes was 

 abundant in the Station garden and elsewhere in the State. The 

 Blet Scab, a disease causing wart} 7 excrescences upon beet roots, 

 and said to be produced by the same fungus as Potato Scab was 

 abundaut in the Station garden and other places in the State. The 

 Clover Rust was unusually bad (especially on second-growth clover,) 

 about Orono. A new tomato disease causing depressed dark 



