. Fruit diseases and how to treat them!. them are ofgreater moment. A fruit injured by the Pear Scab is shown in Fig. 16, andthe figure might with propriety be used to indicate the resultsof an attack by the Leaf Blight or Fruit Spot. The first gross character of this disease to appear upon thefruit are sooty spots, which are not unlike the apple scabfungus upon the leaves of the apple, as the fungus developesthe epidermis of the fruit, as well as, the tissue underneath itlooses its color, nourishment seems to be cut off and the affect-ed area becomes dead and woody, and as a result of the gro
. Fruit diseases and how to treat them!. them are ofgreater moment. A fruit injured by the Pear Scab is shown in Fig. 16, andthe figure might with propriety be used to indicate the resultsof an attack by the Leaf Blight or Fruit Spot. The first gross character of this disease to appear upon thefruit are sooty spots, which are not unlike the apple scabfungus upon the leaves of the apple, as the fungus developesthe epidermis of the fruit, as well as, the tissue underneath itlooses its color, nourishment seems to be cut off and the affect-ed area becomes dead and woody, and as a result of the growthof adjacent parts, the affected part cracks as shown in thefigure. The Scab is successfully treated with the standardBordeaux Mixture; the treatment for the Leaf-blight will ac-complish both. 220 WEST VIRGINIA EXPERIMENT Brown Kot. {Monilia Fnictigena^This diesase which affects the plum, as well as, cherry and peachillustrated in Fig. 9 and Fig. 17 has been discussed under thehead of Peach diseases. See pages Fig. 17—Brown Hole Fungus. (Cylindrosporium padi.) While this disease bears no resemblance to the leaf curl of thepeach, the result of its work upon the plum is much the sameas that of the leaf curl on the peach in that it causes the loss ofthe foliage. Early in the summer small circular spots, about one-eighthinch in diameter appear upon the leaves of plums and spots are at first purplish in color but later they turn to abrown as the result of the death of the tissue. The dead tissuefalls away leaving more or less circular holes which gives the t^RUlT DISEASES AND SOW TO TREAT THEM. 221 leaf the appearance of havingbeen pierced by shot assliown in Fig. 18 hence thename shot-hole fungus. Ifnot treated the foliage of thetree may be entirely destroy-ed thus causing not only aserious check to the growthof the plant but the castingof its fruit as well. Fortu-nately the disease yields totreat ment with BordeauxMixture. The fi
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