128 REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY OF THE 
this house, being taken there by messenger. The temperature was 
1ecorded at different periods four times each twenty-four hours. 
An examination of these records shows that at 4 readings the tem- 
perature was 30°, at 3 it was 3014°, at 45 it was 31°, at 74 it was 
3114°, at go it was 32°, at 25 it was 3212° and at 4 it was 33° F. 
The apples and cultures were removed from the cold storage 
house on May 13, 1905, and at once brought to the laboratury by 
messenger and immediately examined. Their condition was as 
stated in the following table: 
TABLE III.— CoNDITION oF INOCULATED APPLES AND CULTURES AFTER BEING 
IN CoLp STORAGE FoR Two MONTHS. 
SECOND TEST. 
Fungus. Growth in apples. Growth in cultures. 
Alternaria sp. On some fruits there has No growth. 
been a slight growth, 
but nothing of impor- 
tance. 
Blue mold, Large decayed spots at Vigorous colonies in each 
Penicillium the point of every in- culture, 
glaucum. oculation. 
Brown rot, No growth in any of the No growth. 
Sclerotinia fruits. 
fructigena. 
Pink rot, No growth in any of the No growth. 
Cephalothecium fruits, 
roseum. 
ca, No experiments with Small growth in the cul- 
Venturia fruit. tures. 
inequalis, 
The condition of these apples and cultures upon removal from 
the cold storage house was the same as those in the first experi- 
ment. ‘The experiments were comparable in every way and the 
results are practically identical. 
As was done in the first experiment, the apples were photo- 
graphed and then put away in a place at room temperature — about 
70° during the day. They were examined in one week and again 
in two weeks, their condition being as follows: 
