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Title: The Cuba review and bulletin
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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e at Washington, and probably the most competent author-ity on the bacterial diseases of plants, reached the same conclusion after some timespent in studying the disease in various parts of Cuba in the spring of 1904. Finalproof, hovvever, is still lacking. The attempt to determine the organism causing the disease has been continuedsince this report was written, and, although no absolutely conclusive results havebeen obtained, Mr. Home, like Professor Earle and Dr. Smith, is confident of itsbacterial origin, which he expects to demonstrate in time. His attempts at finding acure for the trouble have convinced him, also, that there is little dependence to beplaced on any measure except that of a thorough sanitation of the groves, consistingof the destruction by fire of all dead or hopelessly affected trees, and the disinfectionby fire of those showing the attack in its early stages. The call to Baracoa hasgiven him an opportunity to begin an extensive test of this method, which has been
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Keproduced by permiission of the Estacion Central Agronomica de Cuba. ^i^v,,/, ^. h„ Cocoanut tree hopelessly affected by the bud rot. The youngest, undeveloped leaf, held out bythe man in the top, is rotten, and the lower leaves are turning yellow. On each side of this treemay be seen the stump of one already dead. t Erwin P Smith. Bud rot of the Cocoanut palm in the West Indies, Science, March 31, 1905; p. 500.t P. S. Earle. Report on a trip to Jamaica, Journal N. Y. Botanical Garden, January, 1903: p. 4. 20 T?IE CUBA RE\IE\V And Bulletin. recommended from the British West Indies, and is also being tried in India and Ceylon. At this writing (August, 1907), it is still too early to give the results of hiswork, but he is already much encouraged as to the possibility of saving the treeswhich arc still in the early stages of the rot, and of demonstrating that the diseasecan be kept under control though it will probably be impossible to completely ex-terminate it. , ,f J 1 1 I V In Mar

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