Diseases of economic plants (1910) Diseases of economic plants diseasesofeconom02stev Year: 1910 92 DISEASES OF ECONOMIC PLANTS growing as compared with other rots. It is accompanied by a bitter taste which is so pronounced as to injure cider made from affected apples. The chief destruction follows the harvest, though the disease is sometimes found in fruit still upon the tree. The Rhode Island Greening, Fall Pippin, Fameuse, Fig. 36. — Pink rot (cephalotheciose) following scab. After Eustace. Maiden Blush, Tompkins King, and Twenty Ounce are especially susceptible. Chief attention should
Diseases of economic plants (1910) Diseases of economic plants diseasesofeconom02stev Year: 1910 92 DISEASES OF ECONOMIC PLANTS growing as compared with other rots. It is accompanied by a bitter taste which is so pronounced as to injure cider made from affected apples. The chief destruction follows the harvest, though the disease is sometimes found in fruit still upon the tree. The Rhode Island Greening, Fall Pippin, Fameuse, Fig. 36. — Pink rot (cephalotheciose) following scab. After Eustace. Maiden Blush, Tompkins King, and Twenty Ounce are especially susceptible. Chief attention should be directed to the prevention of the scab. In storage a dry house, well ventilated, kept at 45° F. or below gives best rot resistance. Brown rot (Sclerotinia fructigena (Pers.) Schroet.).— One of the most serious apple rots in Europe, this disease is fortunately as yet less destructive in America, though it is occasionally met with as one of the minor causes of
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