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same field and under parallel conditions suffered but slightly. In 
a plantation of red raspberries at Marlboro, canes which passed 
the winter tied up to stakes were killed back from six to eighteen 
inches. The injury was worse on low ground, 
CANE BLIGHT. 
(? Phoma.) 
In various localities in the northern part of the district there 
is a common disease of raspberries, which may be called cane 
blight for want of a better name. On June 1 it was observed at 
Coxsackie on black raspberries. Its attacks were confined almost 
exclusively to old canes. The owner states that it rarely attacks 
young canes, but did so to some extent last season. Some canes 
were dead, others nearly dead, and still others showing the first 
symptoms. The affected canes showed a brownish black discolora- 
tion of the bark which was dead. Usually the discoloration ex- 
tended the whole length of the cane on one side only, the bark 
on the other side remaining alive and green. Numerous pycni- 
dia of at least four different species of fungi were found on the 
dead bark. The predominating form was a species of Phoma 
having small, round or slightly ellipsoidal spores with a brownish 
tinge. 
At Poughkeepsie on June 20, we found what appeared to be 
the same disease killing the canes of black raspberries. It was 
destructive. Canes here and there were dying and their abundant 
fruit, which was nearly ripe, was drying up. The owner thought 
it the effect of drought. Here, as at Coxsackie, only the fruiting 
canes were affected. The affected plantation was an old one. 
An adjacent plantation of young plants of the same variety was 
not affected. ‘The tendency of the canes to die on one side was 
not so pronounced as at Coxsackie, but pycnidia of the same 
Phoma were abundant and occurred so close to. the healthy bark 
as to indicate that the fungus was parasitic. . 
On July 19 the same disease on black raspberries was found at 
Voorheesville. Here it had ruined one-third of the crop. It was 
