No. 470] NOTES AND LITERATURE 



BOTANY. 



Smith's Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases 



of i)liitits. \Vc an^ now ftivored with the first part (Ir; 



graph is not intended to take the ])lace of tlie maii} 

 .subject, but rather to supplement tlieni. TIh- work 

 useful to animal pathologists, as well as to plant pailu 

 monograph is the outgrowth of the work which lias Ix 

 in the study of bacterial diseases of plants in the Labor 

 Pathology, 'united States Department of Agriculture, 

 described have all been tested and are now in us(> in th( 

 The following stiggestions in regard to "A Studv ot a 

 should be impressed on everv beginner. 



"Every one who has carefully in(,uircd into ihr 

 that the brief statement of the bc-haviour of an or^r;,„is 



tinguish the (.ro-;misin from iis f.Hows. If a nc^ 

 described so that it can b(^ idcntiiicd by otlicr>. 



