A SERIOUS LETTUCE DISEASE. 
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and John Hamilton, Charlie Gore, Rob Wells, and Charlie Pickett, of 
Magnolia, are, or have been, prominent in the industry. 
At Maxton, lettuce was grown for shipment in 1902 by H. C. Mc¬ 
Nair and H. S. McNair. 
Considerable lettuce is also grown for shipment at Faison, Willard, 
Wade, Tarboro, Chadbourn, and Mt. Olive. 
Characteristic Symptoms of Sclerotiniose. 
Sclerotiniose may readily be distinguished from any other lettuce 
disease when the specific symptoms are once known. 
Of these symptoms the One which first catches the eye of the lettuce 
grower is the rotting of his plant in whole or in part. When first 
observed a single leaf may be drooping, or wilting; a day or so later 
the whole plant appears involved, the outer leaves dropping flat on 
Fig. 2. —Plant showing drop, one symptom of sclerotiniose. 
the ground, the central head alone remaining standing. At this stage 
the plant appears as though scalded by an application of hot water. 
The head also soon succumbs to the rot and topples over. The first 
conspicuous symptom is this rotting and “dropping” of the whole 
plant. 
Close examination of such rotting plants, especially in the later 
stages of the disease, reveals the presence of a delicate weft of cotton- 
