The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . y enough, considering its favour-able results. It is a capital and easily-appliedstimulant, suitable for all grassland whereClover of any variety is required for feeding DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS AND PESTS SCHEDULED BY THE BOARD OFAGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES. XVII.*—AMERICAN PEAR BLIGHT. A disease which has caused widespread dam-age to Pears, Apples and Quinces in the UnitedStates and Canada is that known as PearBlight, Fire Blight or Twig Blight, which is dueto the Bacillus amylovoiiis, Burrill. There arebot
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . y enough, considering its favour-able results. It is a capital and easily-appliedstimulant, suitable for all grassland whereClover of any variety is required for feeding DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS AND PESTS SCHEDULED BY THE BOARD OFAGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES. XVII.*—AMERICAN PEAR BLIGHT. A disease which has caused widespread dam-age to Pears, Apples and Quinces in the UnitedStates and Canada is that known as PearBlight, Fire Blight or Twig Blight, which is dueto the Bacillus amylovoiiis, Burrill. There areboth loss of foliage of the affected trees anddamage to the wood. It appears to have beenfirst observed about 1780 by William Denning,who wrote of it in 1794. In his Cultivation ofFruit Trees, published in 1817, William Coxedescribed it in the following terms:—Thatspecies of blight which is sometimes called fire-blight frequently destroys trees in the fullestapparent vigour and health in a few hours,turning the leaves suddenly brown as if theyhad passed through a hot flame, and causing a. 7 W. /.< Fig. 118.— uassonh : flowers rose coloured. stock. Those who do use it frequently err indelaying its application until March, when it istoo late to expect definite results the samevear; it is very slow in assimilation, and requiresa long season for the process of Molyneux. ERYTHR/EA MASSONII. Massonii (see fig. 118) is a charm-ing little rock plant from the Azores. It is ofdwarf creeping habit, growing only 2 or 3 incheshigh and producing its pretty, rose-colouredflowers during the whole of the summer flourishes best in a partly-shaded position, orplanted amongst very low-growing shrubs that,are not too close together. As it is somewhattender and often gets killed outside in winter, itis always advisable to keep a stock in species may be increased freely by means ofcuttings, and it also produces plenty of is some
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