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The eight canes were cut and examined August 9, 1902. Of 
the five inoculated canes three were dead from the wax up, and 
showed an abundance of Coniothyrium pycnidia on either side 
of the wax. The other two inoculated canes were still alive 
at the top, but on both there was much discoloration of bark 
and wood, and plenty of Coniothyriwn pycnidia in the vicinity 
‘of the wax. On one, this discoloration extended half way 
around the cane and to a distance of three inches below the 
wax, while on the other it extended two inches above and one 
inch below. In both cases it was plain that the fungus had 
attacked the canes. 
On the same date all three checks were alive and green to the 
top. On two of them the bark was green under the wax and 
not the least bit discolored, but the third showed a slight dis- 
coloration in the immediate vicinity of the puncture. However, 
no Coniothyrwm could be found. 
Haperiment No. 11.— Date of inoculation, June 6, 1902. Ten 
new canes of red raspberry (variety, Cuthbert) 20 to 30 inches 
high were inoculated about 8 inches below the tip as follows: 
The cane was first washed with a 1-1000 corrosive sublimate 
solution, then bored through with a sterilized platinum needle, a 
bit of fungus crowded into the hole thus made, a drop of dis- 
tilled water applied and the whole wound with grafting wax. 
The fungus used was of the same strain as that used in Experi- 
ments 9 and 10. Five checks were made. 
On August 8 five of the inoculated canes were all dead above 
the wax and about one inch below it. The tops of two of these 
were lost, but the stubs showed an abundance of Coniothyrium 
pycnidia; and the other three were covered with Coniothyriu 
for an inch above and an inch below the wax. The remaining 
five inoculated canes were still alive at the top, but all had 
cankers at the point of inoculation, three of them being bad and 
one showing Coniothyrium pycnidia under the wax. These five 
canes were considerably enlarged and the bark and wood dis- 
colored at the point of inoculation. Thus, on six of the inocu- 
lated canes there was undoubted Coniothyriwm. infection, and 
on the other four there was some evidence of it, although no 
