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them back and planted them, losing less than two per cent, 
although they were not set until May 1. The owner states that 
had he been doing a retail business he could undoubtedly have 
disposed of a large proportion of the stock at a fair price, but 
it was impossible to sell it at wholesale. 
II. SHOT-HOLE FUNGUS ON CHERRY FRUIT PEDICELS. 
In New York State the shot-hole fungus, Cylindrosporiuwm padi 
Karst., does more or less damage every season. It is destruc- 
tive to both plums and cherries in the nursery and in the 
orchard. During the past season it was unusually destructive. 
Among cherries, the variety English Morello is especially sus- 
ceptible to the disease. Trees of this variety were dropping 
their leaves quite freely as early as June 26 and in some cases 
the trees were nearly defoliated by August 1. 
On June 26, while examining some seriously affected English 
Morello trees at Milton, it was observed that many of the fruit- 
pedicels bore brown spots of considerable size. Upon micro- 
scopic examination it was found that the spots were caused by 
the shot-hole fungus, Oylindrosporium padi. 
On July 11 the same thing was observed at Highland. In this 
case there was a long row of English Morello trees, all heavily 
loaded with fruit. So many leaves had fallen that the trees 
looked bare. The fruit-pedicels were so generally attacked by 
the fungus that it was somewhat difficult to find one which was 
entirely free from the brown spots. The spots were from one- 
eighth to one-fourth inch in length and extended one-third to 
one-half the distance around the pedicel. In many cases they 
completely encircled the pedicel. Often the spots coalesced, and 
then a large portion, or even all, of the pedicel was brown. 
Even with the unaided eye one could detect a white speck or, 
more often, a white rift, at the center of each spot. With the 
aid of a hand lens it could be plainly seen that the white specks 
were gelatinous spore masses. The affected pedicels almost 
invariably showed an abundance of the spores. The same was 
