Melon culture; a practical treatise on the principles involved in the production of melons, both for home use and for market: including a chapter on forcing and one on insects and diseases and means of controlling the same . ^ d Fig. 19. A rust-resistant Rocky Ford; note the fine netting. in the soil. In no case should watermelons followwatermelons two years in succession. Then, diseased vines should be burned and all infectedfruit l)e disposed of in some place where the landwill not be used for growing melons. Disease-Resistant Plants.—If we go into a melonfield where this disease is
Melon culture; a practical treatise on the principles involved in the production of melons, both for home use and for market: including a chapter on forcing and one on insects and diseases and means of controlling the same . ^ d Fig. 19. A rust-resistant Rocky Ford; note the fine netting. in the soil. In no case should watermelons followwatermelons two years in succession. Then, diseased vines should be burned and all infectedfruit l)e disposed of in some place where the landwill not be used for growing melons. Disease-Resistant Plants.—If we go into a melonfield where this disease is quite prevalent, we willusually find here and there plants which are per- 88 MliLON ClI/rURK iectly healthy and which a,pparently have the powerto resist or to throw off the disease. In fact, somevarieties seem to have that inherent quality, wliichenables them to escape the disease, while othersin the same field succumb to it. This fact enablesthe plant breeder to make his selections of fruitsfor seed from these apparently immune jjlants, andso, after a time, to produce a disease-resistant strain.
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