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with the disease, and subsequent cultures and inoculations proved this 
surmise to be correct. 
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of the liquid was covered with the fungus in a fruiting condition. 
When spores were sown in a hanging-drop along with a very thin 
section of lily bulb-scale, it was observed that the germ-tubes could not 
enter the tissue through the epidermis, but that they entered readily at 
those points where the celis were not protected by the epidermis. 
set of experiments were also carried out, using healthy lily bulbs, 
some of which were furnished by Messrs. Tozer, for inoculation. For 
a large supply of spores, which were tested and found to germinate 
readily. ‘These spores were collected with a wet camel-hair brush and 
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with sterilised cotton wool as before. The water in which two other 
bulbs were growing was inoculated as above, but the roots of the bulbs 
Finally, 1 per cent. of salicylic acid was added to the water in which 
two more bulbs were growing, a copious supply of the inoculating water 
added, the roots of the bulbs broken off, the bulbs replaced, and, as in 
the other instances, protected with cotton wool. 
At the end of six weeks the two bulbs whose roots were not 
destroyed appeared to be quite healthy ; they were then planted in soil, 
e still growing and show no indication of disease. The two 
bulbs with broken roots showed signs of disease ut the end of three 
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weeks after inoculation, and at the six weeks period the disease had 
occurring on the bulbs received from Japan. The companion bulb was 
also. diseased, and in about three months was soft and rotten, and 
covered with the fungus in a fruiting condition. The two bulbs with 
broken roots th growing in water containing 1 per cent. 
of salicylic acid remained quite healthy, made fresh roots, and are still 
living. 
rous experiments were made with other kinds of bulbs, and it 
was found that the fungus refused to grow on onions, however much 
mutilated. On the other hand, daffodil bulbs are very susceptible to the 
