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suddenly and become epidemic about June 8. When we made 
our first observations, June 13, it was already so abundant that 
fruit growers were cognizant of it. Ten days earlier we had 
spent two days visiting fruit plantations in this same locality 
and at that time we neither saw nor heard of any trouble with 
currants except cane blight which is always destructive there. 
Although we were seeking the diseases of raspberries rather 
than those of currants, it is likely that the currant anthracnose 
would have come to our attention had it been at all abundant 
at that time. In a letter dated June 10, Mr. A. B. Clarke, of 
Milton, states that it was very abundant in his plantation at 
that date. 
During June the affected plantations were readily recognized, 
even at a considerable distance, by the yellow color of the folli- 
age; but in July this was much less noticeable. By July 10 the 
few leaves still remaining on the bushes were scarcely at all yel- 
low although thickly covered with anthracnose spots. By June 
26 the fruit was beginning to ripen and thereafter the affected 
plantations were to be recognized by their conspicuous red 
color. The falling of the leaves left the load of ripening fruit 
exposed to view. 
In addition to the leaves, the fungus attacked the leaf stalks 
or petioles, causing conspicuous black, slightly sunken spots. 
It also attacked the fruit stems, the berries and the new canes. 
The spots on the fruit stems were black and resembled those on 
the petioles. They-were from one-fourth to one-half inch in 
length and extended half way or more around the stem. On the 
berries the spots were black and circular and bore some resem- 
blance to fly specks. While the berries were green the spots on 
them were fairly numerous and readily seen; but as the berries 
ripened the spots became less conspicuous. This may have been 
due to the fact that the small berries toward the tip of the 
cluster were the ones most severely attacked and as a result 
many of them dropped before ripening. The affected berries 
did not rot; and the presence of the spots on the fruit stems 
1See Bul. 167 of this Station, p. 292. 
