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(the Peronosporas) are unfortunate, since if they are used without 
qualification they mean one thing to one man and another thing toy 
another man. We qualified them properly in our usage, but all have 
not done so. The fungus here in question has nothing in common 
with the ubiquitous white and green mildew, common on a great 
variety of objects in damp weather—foods, leather, decaying vege- 
tation, etc.—nor has it anything in common with the white mold that. 
troubled cigar makers in various sections of the country some years 
ago and for which the Department of Agriculture devised a remedy. 
Press reports that the tobacco blue-mold disease has appeared in’ 
Connecticut, North Carolina, or other districts are without founda- 
tion so far as the Department of Agriculture has information, nor 
has the disease appeared in the Madison or Dade City districts of 
Florida or in southern Alabama. 
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