Beets.
 Beets are attacked in the crown and simply wilt down.




 Melons.
 Watermelons and nutmeg melons show the disease by a
wilting of the foliage which turns yellowish as the disease pro-
gresses. When the fruit is attacked, rotting sets in very shortly.
 OBSCURE IN SOME PLANTS.
 In cabbage, beets, watermelon and nutmeg-melon, the cause
of the disturbance is at first altogether doubtful. The great
number of other fungi and bacteria that take hold of the plant as
soon as they can gain an entrance, soon overwhelm the first
cause and before the above characters are fully manifest it is by
no means easy to find the blight. Fortunately these vegetables
are cheap when the marketing season is over, and it has been an
easy matter to get enough blight to inoculate two hundred cab-
bage plants and as many beets, leaving at the same time a check
plant for each inoculated plant.



 Daphne Odora.
 In 1892, Dr. Appell, the College physician, brought to the
laboratory two fine specimens of Daphne odora that had been
killed by some fungus. On making culture from this it was
found to be the same as the tomato blight. It had destroyed
the bark and cambium layer entirely around the stems at and
above the ground line. There was no disease whatever in the
upper limbs.