from their use. A marked advantk
plants. The fungicides keep off disea,
extent, insects.
 There are also many plants attack]
succumb, but live out a miserable ex:
end of the marketing season. Other p
the crop they would bear. After spe
field, it was an easy matter to detect
would prematurely ripen. In some c
plant alone was attacked; again all
stroyed. Some plants have a greater
especially true of the common plum to
plant, on favorable soil, have withst
Plants, however, of this same variety,
etc., succumb to the first inoculation.
variety of tomatoes could be grown th
to blight than those usually cultiva
would probably lack some desirable qi
employment would be to ascertain jus
that the tomato most desires.


ge is noticed in treated
es in general and, to some

:ed by blight that do not
stence and die about the
plants are simply cut off in
ending four weeks in the
such plants. Often fruit
cases the main root of the
the latteral ones were de-
resisting power. This is
mato. Specimens of this
ood repeated inoculation.
hen not on favorable soil,
It is not improbable that a
tt would be more resisting
Led now. Such varieties
ality. A more profitable
what the conditions are


 BLACK ROT.
 (Macrosporium Solani.)
 This disease is very widely disseminated throughout this
State and is destructive to tomatoes in many other gardening
States. From these we can get cons derable information as to
how it shall be treated.
 This disease appears upon the vin rarely on the leaves, and
often on the fruit. When it is present on fruit, the flower end
usually rots, and finally a dark green, almost black felt, forms on
this. The tomato then dries up, and seemingly nothing but the
skin remains. In the Northern fruit States the disease passes the
winter in this form.
 On the stems of the tomato the spots are more or less dark
colored. It has been called the "spot," "black spot" and other
names by growers. It attacks the plants mostly below the fruit.
The spots appear to be somewhat sunken.
 Specimens of this disease were submitted to Prof. B. T. Gal-
loway, chief of Div. Veg. Path., by Prof. W. T. Swingle, of Eustis,
so there can be no doubt as to the identity of this fungus.
 This disease has been quite destructive to, Irish potatoes in
some of the potato growing States.