BACTERIAL WILT OF CUCURBITS. 
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tucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, 
Nebraska, and Colorado, and as having been reported also from Ger- 
many, Russia, and the Transvaal. He states that ''nothing is known 
of its occurrence south of Virginia/' On account of the low thermal 
death point of the organism and the lack of reports or specimens of 
the disease from the States south of Virginia he was rather of the 
opinion that it would not be found to occur in the far South, except 
in the more mountainous parts. 
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. St. Annes '# 
Bangor O 
Malone • 
• Constable • 
Voorheesville 9 
Albany • 
New Scotland © 
Orient O 
East Marion O 
Eastport 
Woodbury O 
Farmingdale O 
• New York 
Central Park O 
■ Red Bank O 
■ Long Branch O 
• lona O 
• Newfield O 
' Minotola O 
■ Vineland O 
Salisbury 
' Fruitland O 
' Giesboro Point 9 
Tuxedo 9 
Norfolk • 
« Portsmouth 9 
Parsons O 
Goldsboro • 
f Faison Q 
Garner O 
' Wallace O 
Wilmington • 
West Raleigh 
Bowman + 
Orangeburg O 
Charleston Q 
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Fig. 9. — Map of the United States, showing the distribution of the bacterial wilt of cucurbits. 0= Bac- 
terial wilt seen by one or both of the writers. #= Isolations of Bacillus tracheiphilus made by one or 
both of the writers. n=Bacterial wilt reported by other pathologists, either with or without specific 
locality. 
In 1914, F. M. Holfs x reported this disease as causing serious losses 
to cucumbers in the vicinity of Charleston and Beaufort, S. C. With 
this exception no published reports of its occurrence south of Vir- 
ginia and east of the Mississippi River had been found, and letters to 
experiment station pathologists from North Carolina to Louisiana had 
given no other definite information. 
Accordingly, during June and July, 1916, a scouting trip was made 
by the senior writer through North Carolina and South Carolina, 
i Barre, H. W. Report of the botanist and plant pathologist. S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., 27th Ann. Rpt., 
[1913J/14, p. 23. [1915.] 
