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CORN. 
In my previous Reports notes of these matters have been given, 
and in this present one, under the head of “ Clover Stem-sickness” (a 
disease which is caused by the same species of wormlet) additional 
information is conveyed, to which the reader is referred for minute and 
full description in detail of the Tylenchus devastatrix , together with a 
plate giving excellent figures, much magnified, of the male and female 
wormlet, and likewise figures of the wormlet in different stages of 
development in the egg and in young condition, all copied by his kind 
permission (for use in this Report) from the beautiful figures drawn 
from life by Dr. J. Ritzema Bos, Professor at the State College of 
Agriculture, Wageningen, Holland.'' 
During the past season notes have been sent of Tulip-root infesta¬ 
tion, showing its presence, or prevalence, in various localities, for the 
most part in Scotland or the north of England, with the addition, in 
some cases, of treatment, mostly following up points previously brought 
forward. 
Very characteristic specimens of Tulip-root were sent me on July 
18th by Mr. Tlios. T. Cundy, from the Ainsty Estate Office, Hall 
Orchards, Wetlierby. In this case the Eelworms in the Tulip-rooted 
Oats were almost unusually numerous and in various stages of growth, 
and eggs also were observable. Mr. Cundy noted that many Oat-fields 
in the immediate neighbourhood were badly attacked, and that these 
were suffering much more than the field from which samples had been 
forwarded, this field having been fully manured; and he added :— 
“ It has been a hard fight between manure and worms, and the fold- 
yard manure seems rather to have had the best of it, so that I shall 
have an average crop, but not such as I should have had without their 
interference.” 
* See ‘ L’Anguillule de la tige,’ par Dr. J. Ritzema Bos. Haarlem, 1888. Plates ^ 
I. and II, 
