THE LITERATURE OF PLANT DISEASES 
The literature on plant diseases is widely scattered. Abstracts of the 
current literature on the subject (American and some of the’ foreign) 
appear regularly in each number of the EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 
Other journals and publications in which such reviews and abstracts 
of phytopathological papers are to be found, follow :— ; 
Phytopathology. (Official organ of the American Phytopathological 
Society.) 
Zeitschrift fiir Pflanzenkrankheiten. 
Botanisches Centralblatt. 
Centralblatt far Bacteriologie und Parasitenkunde. 
Just’s Botanische Jahresbericht. ; 
Index au Bulletin Bibliographique Herbdomadaire Institute Inter- 
national d’Agriculture. ; 
Hollrung’s Jahresbericht ber das Gebeit der Pflanzenkrankheiten. 
Mycologia, formerly Journal of Mycology. 
Texts and reference books in which references to the literature of the 
subject are more or less brought together, are:— 
Duggar, B. M. Fungous Diseases of Plants. 1909. 
Stevens, F. L. The Fungi Which Cause Plant Disease. 1913. 
Sorauer, P. Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten. 1909. 
Smith, E. F. Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases, vol. I-III. 
1905-1911-1914. 
Massee, G. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees. 1910. 
PROCEDURE IN PREPARING A BIBLIOGRAPHY 
Choose from the list of term-paper subjects, according to directions 
there given, the disease on which a term paper is to be written. 
Write in three different columns on one of the reference-sheets provided; 
(a) the names of the host-plants; (b) different names applied to the 
disease; (c) different names applied to the pathogene. 
Note:—Begin each column with the names given in the subject- 
list, adding to each; other hosts, other names of the disease and other names 
of the pathogene, discovered as the work proceeds. These will constitute 
key-words under which references to the disease in hand will be looked 
for in the indices. 
To find and copy references :— 
_ _ A. Select the latest volume of the Experiment Station Record 
available and, turning to the index, locate under key-words the references 
to the disease chosen. 
1. Write on a sheet of paper the number of the volume in hand. 
2. Record under this volume number, in numerical order, the 
Sa which references to the disease are abstracted. (See Information 
p. 12. 
Suppose for example the key-words as found in the subject-list for the 
term paper are:— 
Apple Bitter Rot Glomerella cingulata 
First consult the index under apple, noting the page of every item 
i may possibly refer to the disease bitter rot, and record as directed 
above. 
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