aer 

sioi the jails: of the cane in all << whether apparently —— 
~ healthy, or Hating unhealthy and sour conten a 
— --.* As this parasite develops, it tinges the Cells of the cane with a faint E. 
ak edi which gradually deepens in colour to a bright red as time 

points to the conclusion that the daroution of the canes is first 1 a — 
by the fungus, and when sou rness so an acid eondition Jar arises is followed 
by the attacks of its €— en ES 
* Personally, I do bt Wish í this 7 view to be received as fact until it has n 
been co ine d by Mes "S 
“I learn from Prof. PÀlbuqnergde that he has also noted a fungus to — 
be present, and that he was glad to have his attention directed to the ` 
subject of its investigation." = 
This is so important that it will be well to. throw further light on the — . 
ee by having canes examined by an expert in phyto-pathology, m. 
will give instructio ons for the proper preservation of specimens, 
if it is necessary to send them out of the island. i 
. As mentioned pebas the burrows of Xylebori are fpeciei lined. 
with a mycelium on aC ag the is pet feed ; this ecessarily | 
a forerunner e = ek and c ist be taken to see that. no confu- 
sion arises as uence in pe “of the insect and dex] The 
possibility of fengons disease of the roots being present should a. 











The following paragraph’ shows. that ihe question of ‘cagous d disease 
is wo rthy of far more attention than it has received :— 
“Dr. Benecke, the Director of the ve io ho Station at Kisten, 
Java, has offered a prize of 1,000 marks for the best essay, founded on 
original observations and experiments in iia on, on the causes of 
the red colour in the fibro- vaste bundles of Sorghum, which aecom- 
panies the disease known as ‘Sereh.’ A very similar disease has 
recently become very destructive to the "—À erop in Java." — 
Nature, June 30, a 
The Tri nidad Committee has not adopted Mr. S view; 
ee says (26).— 
need Hart has propounded a theory that the cause of the Xyle 
ck is the attraction offered by a mieroscopie fungus begin at 
yt d 




ea i t is quite 
eer that such a fungus—the committee has not yet found it-—would 
 eause the cane to sour, when it bh vein this red tin tinge, but. 
committee differs from Mr. Hart w says that this tinge 
— formerly been attributed to the insect, pit that it is not the ease . . 
. The committee has seen hundreds ot ihe stools with the red tin; 
. which had not been attacked by the borers who had attacked the stools 
1 mmedi 
. delow, a well known planter, in answer to som e questions put to him, 
assured he President of this club that he had many canes with a red 

a 1 were a mere 
"e Jan o on his part. At all events, 1 he a meas that he has found a 
fungus present. | 


