A FIELD MEETING OF PATHOLOGISTS 



William A. Murrill 

 (With Plate 15) 



The writer was invited to represent the New York Botanical 

 Garden at a meeting of plant pathologists and Connecticut farm 

 bureau agents, held during the week beginning August 18 at New 

 Haven, Storrs, and elsewhere, for the discussion of some of the 

 most important problems now confronting the Connecticut farm- 

 ers, fruit growers, and truck gardeners. About twenty botanists, 

 mostly from New England and New York, were present ; while 

 several hundred other persons were in attendance at special meet- 

 ings. The evenings were devoted to brief papers and discussions ; 

 the mornings and afternoons to automobile tours through the 

 plantations between New Haven, Hartford, and Storrs. A dis- 

 tance of three hundred miles was covered in these tours, during 

 which time the weather was most delightful. 



The meeting on Monday evening at the Graduates Club of 

 New Haven, presided over by Dr. E. H. Jenkins, was devoted to 

 a variety of general subjects, such as Plant Pathology and the 

 College Course," Closer Relations between France and Amer- 

 ica," " Entomology and Pathology," Tropical Forestry," " The 

 Botanical Garden and the Pathologist," and Reminiscences of 

 Dr. Farlow." 



On Tuesday morning, various departments of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station were visited and then a tour made of or- 

 chards and farms showing peach and apple spraying experiments, 

 peach yellows, potato tests, corn breeding experiments, effects of 

 fertilizers on fungi, etc. 



In the afternoon, the Yale Botanical Laboratories were in- 

 spected under the guidance of Professor Evans and Dr. Whit- 

 ford; after which the party went on a long journey through the 

 market gardens of Highwood and Westville, the Elm City Nur- 



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