. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. ttm^^f^ / (I CHAPTER XIX. FUNGUS DISEASES OF PLANTS. HOW TO PREVENT AND CURE THEM. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of ;. ECENT investigations have acquainted us pretty well with the true nature, modes of propagation, etc., of most of the fungi which attack and damage many of our garden crops, and cause the various rots, blights and mildews. Among them we have the potato rot, the tomato rot, the celery blight, the bean rust, the strawberry rust, the lettuce mildew, the melon vine disease, etc. Heat and moisture favor t
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. ttm^^f^ / (I CHAPTER XIX. FUNGUS DISEASES OF PLANTS. HOW TO PREVENT AND CURE THEM. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of ;. ECENT investigations have acquainted us pretty well with the true nature, modes of propagation, etc., of most of the fungi which attack and damage many of our garden crops, and cause the various rots, blights and mildews. Among them we have the potato rot, the tomato rot, the celery blight, the bean rust, the strawberry rust, the lettuce mildew, the melon vine disease, etc. Heat and moisture favor the germination of the spores of these fungi, and consequently the diseases generally develop on hot days after rains, or during damp sultry weather. -Unfortunately there is hardly a cure for any of them yet suggested. The only safety for the gardener, in this matter, lies in prevention, and here again, as in the case of insects, we must look to change of loca- tion—planting at the greatest possible distance from any ground where the same vegetable was grown before, as to the first feasible preventive measure to be adopted. Even this, as in the analogous case of insects, is not an absolute protection, and the great difficulty here is that we have no means to anticipate an attack of such diseases with any degree of certainty. In all localities where diseases of this character are prevail- ing to some extent, we may generally expect them late in July or August, when hot weather is following after warm rains, and here prudence would dictate the use of precautionary measures. 1 he trouble again is that so little definite information on the most effective germicides, and the most convenient mode of application IS yet developed, and I will have to content myself with merely making suggestions. ^ Sulphate OF Copper.—This salt (blue vitriol or blue stone), in simple solution or in various compounds, has just been recognized as a preventive of the dreaded mildew and black rot in grap
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