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Long Island. They presented the same symptoms as those studied 
in 1905. One was brown and dry, but the other nine showed ap- 
parently healthy petals on the outside while within they were all 
more or less decayed. In all ten buds the decayed tissue was 
overgrown with Sporotrichum which was fruiting profusely. No 
other fungus was found in any of the specimens, but the whitish, 
ovid, egg-like bodies were again in evidence. 
At this point in the investigation Mr. H. E. Hodgkiss, Assistant 
Entomologist, discovered that the supposed insect eggs were in 
reality mites having enormously distended abdomens. It was de- 
cided that he should make a study of the curious creatures and 
their relation to the carnation disease. The results of his investiga- 
tion appear on pages 159, 165. 
A fourth lot of specimens received from Long Island on Decem- 
ber 19, 1906, was divided between Mr. Hodgkiss and the writer. 
The latter’s share consisted of 14 buds in the early stages of the 
disease. Every one was thoroughly infested with Sporotrichum. 
No other fungus was found. 
A fifth lot of specimens, received August 9, 1907, differed from 
any previously seen in that they were quite small buds which had 
died and become brown long before reaching the blooming stage. 
On the interior the dead buds were moldy with Sporotrichum. 
They came from plants which had been transplanted into the green- 
house about July 1. 
Still a sixth lot of specimens was received October 2, 1907. It 
contained 18 buds most of which would readily pass for healthy 
buds about one-half open. Yet, within, every one was badly dis- 
eased and overgrown with Sporotrichum. Mites, also, were 
present. | 
Besides the establishment above mentioned, at least one other 
Long Island greenhouse is known to be infested with the Sporo- 
trichum bud-rot. Several specimens of the disease were found here 
in August, 1907, and the writer has in his possession notes and 
drawings showing that he saw the same disease in this greenhouse 
in January, 1901. At three different times during 1907 (February, 
August and November) a large carnation establishment at Geneva 
was searched for evidence of the Sporotrichum disease. Each time 
traces of it were found, and curiously enough the same peculiar 
mite was associated with it. A circular letter of inquiry sent out 
by the Station in December, 1907, to about sixty New York florists 
elicited twenty-five replies. Five florists reported having had more 
