. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. surplus moisture. The feeding power of the roots should be reduced and evaporation stimulated from the soil. Possibly a light application of superphosphate at time of cultivation would also prove beneficial. Blacli rot, or blossom end rot, a widespread affection causing great loss of fruit, and quite familiar t
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. surplus moisture. The feeding power of the roots should be reduced and evaporation stimulated from the soil. Possibly a light application of superphosphate at time of cultivation would also prove beneficial. Blacli rot, or blossom end rot, a widespread affection causing great loss of fruit, and quite familiar to all, seems to have long been erroneously ascribed solely to one of the forms of Macrosporium— the fa- miliar early blight of the potato — and Bor- deaux mixture is consequently suggested as a remedy. Recent investigations by Earle seem to indicate that the real cause of the malady is no fungus but a bacillus, incapable, imaided, of penetrating the outside tissues of the fruit, but rapidly developing on abraded surfaces or in insect wounds of any kind. cars. Despite the ixtr;i i-ust .if icing and the later ship- ment, quality and :u' ili. ii l>y more satisfactorily maintained and thr in pnldic will soon insist al- together on this more lalional method being put into practice universally. The sorting and grading cannot be carried too far, since the culls and second-class fruits are equally as good for the cannery as first grades and hence the standard of excellence may always be main- tained without material loss. Fungous Diseases. —Ol the fungous affections of the Tomato, damping-off in the seed-bed is the first to be noted, and is familiar to all. Provoked by excess of moisture, warmth and confined air, it may be controlled by witlilinMiiii,' water from the young plants except at mi', sfiiTliii^ the soil to break up and destroy the 'inii nt tlie fungus, and otherwise thoroughly Mildew," Clnilosporiiiiii fiih-iim, is a common mal- ady
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