Diseases of cultivated plants and Diseases of cultivated plants and trees diseasesofcultiv00massuoft Year: [1910?] 372 DISEASES OF CULTIVATED PLANTS of a brown, felt-like substance, used in the production of a great variety of articles, as purses, chest-preservers, slippers, bags, etc. A good collection of articles made from this substance are on view in No. 2 Museum, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Tubeuf states that at one time the sporo- phores of Fomes fomentarius, the tinder fungus, were so numerous and large that for their collection for manufacture of caps, gloves, tinder, etc., a sum of
Diseases of cultivated plants and Diseases of cultivated plants and trees diseasesofcultiv00massuoft Year: [1910?] 372 DISEASES OF CULTIVATED PLANTS of a brown, felt-like substance, used in the production of a great variety of articles, as purses, chest-preservers, slippers, bags, etc. A good collection of articles made from this substance are on view in No. 2 Museum, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Tubeuf states that at one time the sporo- phores of Fomes fomentarius, the tinder fungus, were so numerous and large that for their collection for manufacture of caps, gloves, tinder, etc., a sum of one hundred gulden 114.—l-'oiiusfomcntarius. l-'ungus willi a portion cut out to show stratified pores, reduced. (8, I OS. od.) was paid annually for the material obtained from Bischoffsrent forest in Bavaria. Ten years ago the same brought in a revenue of twelve shillings, to-day it is free, owing to our advance in knowledge as to the injurious elTect of fungus parasites, and the adoption of means for tlie pre- vention of the same. Unfortunately i)revcntive measures against this, as well as other of the larger wound-fungi, arc practically confined to protecting injured surfaces by means of gas-tar. Fruiting
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