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This is especially true if diseased turnips have been fed to the 
stock. Storage in a dry, cool place, with piles not too large, 
may also help to keep down the trouble. No doubt the character 
of the season is a factor in the development of the disease. 
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Soc. Eng. 64: 297-300. 1903. [Illust.] 
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Landékonom. 11: 330. 1893. 
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WISTARIA, CHINESE, Wistaria chinensis. 
Crown GALL, Bacterium tumefaciens Sm. & Towns. Although 
we do not find the above host among those mentioned by Smith 
as infected by the crown gall, yet so far as one can judge from 
macroscopic examination, it is occasionally infected in this state. 
Mr. Walden collected specimens in March, 1912, on plants 
imported from Japan in one of the nurseries, and Dr. Britton 
later brought us specimens from a plant grown in his yard. In 
the latter case the galls were associated with an elongated, sunken 
area of dead bark, and on this we found the fruiting pustules 
of a fungus that agrees fairly well with Phoma seposita Sacc. 
Whether the latter was present as a saprophyte or a parasite 
was not determined, but probably it was the former, since we 
have seen no references to it as causing injury. 
