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were killed and that fruits of older plants did not mature. Studies 
were made upon the pathological anatomy. Attempts at control 
with flowers of sulphur and Bordeaux mixture were unsuccessful. 
Between 1894 and 1902 spraying experiments were conducted in 
New Jersey by Halsted. Success was obtained with Bordeaux 
and soda Bordeaux mixtures (37, p. 11). Stewart (47, p. 159) in 
1897 records much damage to cucumbers in New Jersey by anthrac- 
nose. During the years 1896, 1897, and 1898 Selby (43, 44) studied 
the disease in Ohio, where great damage was done to muskmelons 
and to cucumbers grown for pickles. He noted that showers and 
heavy dews favored the disease and found that a Bordeaux spray 
checked its spread among muskmelons. In 1894 Garman, of Ken- 
tucky (22, p. 51), noted anthracnose on melons shipped from the 
Gulf States and in 1901 gave a brief description of the disease, in the 
course of which he warns against seed infection. 
Tubeuf in his textbook G3, p. 486-487) states that this pe is 
very injurious to seedlings of watermelon, muskmelon, and gourd. 
He lays emphasis upon the injury to cotyledons and stems. In 
1904 Eckardt (11) in Germany recommended soaking cucumber 
seed for one hour in ammoniacal copper carbonate in order to prevent | 
the spread of anthracnose. 
During the years 1901 and 1903 cucumber diseases seem to have 
become increasingly prevalent in this country. Although downy 
mildew was probably the main source of loss, anthracnose received 
added attention, and the more or less purely mycological work of the 
past began to be supplemented by work of a pathological nature. 
Stone and Smith (49, p. 64) in 1902 reported that anthracnose 
~ had been prevalent on muskmelons and watermelons in Massachu- 
setts in 1899 and that it was also common among greenhouse cucum- 
bers in 1901. In 1903 Stone (48, p. 35) again briefly described the 
disease and noted that it occurred early in the season in greenhouses. 
Clinton, in Connecticut (10, p._246), reported in 1904 that anthrac- 
nose Was a common and widespread trouble among cucumbers and 
muskmelons, which recurred annually. The same year, Chester and 
Smith (9, p. 28) published the results of unsuccessful cross inocula- 
tions from bean to cucurbits made at Cornell University. These led 
them to conclude that bean anthracnose is due to a separate and 
distinct fungus. 
In the same year Sheldon (46, p. 127-137), of West Virginia, pub- 
lished the results of the most complete study of this disease that 
had been made up to that time. Anthracnose was the cause of seri- 
ous damage to watermelons and muskmelons in that State. He de- 
scribed the symptoms of the disease, and the morphology of the fungus 
and made numerous cross inoculations. Among his interesting ob- 
servations was the fact that anthracnose was more severe on land 
