. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 766 The American Florist. Mar. 22, cies in this country, we may rest assured it has not yet been discovered in Europe, where edible fungi are more generally sought after than here, so the presump- tion is that it is strictly an American species. Tip Blight of Ornamental Ferns. It is no new thing for those who grow ferns under glass, and this includes all who have one or morein the baj-window, to complain that their pets become brown at the tips and thereby lose much of their green freshness, or fresh greenness. Th
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 766 The American Florist. Mar. 22, cies in this country, we may rest assured it has not yet been discovered in Europe, where edible fungi are more generally sought after than here, so the presump- tion is that it is strictly an American species. Tip Blight of Ornamental Ferns. It is no new thing for those who grow ferns under glass, and this includes all who have one or morein the baj-window, to complain that their pets become brown at the tips and thereby lose much of their green freshness, or fresh greenness. There may be many causes forthis unsightly ap- pearance. In the first place let it be understood that the tips of plants are the most ten- der portions. It is there that new growth takes place, and on that account the cell walls are thin and easily influenced by ontoward circumstances. These unfavor- able surroundings may be an insufficient water supply at the roots, when the tips of the fern plant will wilt, and il the neg- lect is prolonged the young part dries out and dies. It may be that some poisonous gas finds its way intotheair surrounding the room and thereby the plant is injured. Extremes of heat and cold in like manner may be the means of checking the vital action at the most susceptible point, and as a result the tips of the delicate fern be- come brown, curl up, or even fall away. There is still another reason for this in- jury so often met with, and because none of the above deleteriousconditions obtain it is all the more mysterious and difficult to remed}'. The germs of low forms ol life are probably present in the atmos- phere at all times. Being microscopic they pass unheeded, and only their effects are noticed. The various forms of contagious diseases of man as the cholera, yellow fever, consumption and along list of mal- adies of domestic animals are due to these germs, which multiplying with great ra- pidity in the victim cause death. Plants are not exemp: from
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