. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. t whichmakes cutting offof these malforma-tions a very uncer-tain treatment. The hairy rootappears under-ground as a massof fibrous roots andabove ground aswarty knots ontrunk and branch,and is sometimesmistaken for cank-ers, due to othercauses. Treatment.—Theorganismwhichcauses this diseaselives in the soil forseveral years, andcannot be eradi-cated except by along rotation ofcrops. It is unwiseto set orchards,especially peachorchards, in oldberry fields or otherfields known to beinfected or to useberries as inter-row
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. t whichmakes cutting offof these malforma-tions a very uncer-tain treatment. The hairy rootappears under-ground as a massof fibrous roots andabove ground aswarty knots ontrunk and branch,and is sometimesmistaken for cank-ers, due to othercauses. Treatment.—Theorganismwhichcauses this diseaselives in the soil forseveral years, andcannot be eradi-cated except by along rotation ofcrops. It is unwiseto set orchards,especially peachorchards, in oldberry fields or otherfields known to beinfected or to useberries as inter-rowcrops in orchards. Nursery stock known to be infected should be de-stroyed. PEARBlight {Bacillus amylovorus [Burr], De Toni).—This very familiardisease causes the leaves and young twigs to die and blacken very much asthough injured by fire. .These dead leaves hang on the trees during thewinter instead of falling m the autumn, as is the case with healthy disease also attacks the branches, causing black, sunken cankers from 1 Courtesy of The Field, New Young Apple Tree from Nursery.^Showing the disease known as Root Gall. 204 SUCCESSFUL FARMING which a sticky, milky fluid oozes in the early spring, and from which thediscaso is si)rca(l, by moans of insects, to the oi)cninK Mossoms. If theweather conditions arc favoraljJe the blossoms and fruit spurs die andIjlacken and very frequently considerable quantities of the young fruit aredestroyed. The disease also occurs on the apple, crab, hawthorn andother related trees. Treat mint.—Prune and burn the diseased twigs on young trees;clean out the cankers on old trees, dii)ping the knife from time to time informaldehyde (1 jmrt in 20 parts water). Paint these wounds with formal-tlehyde and th(Mi with white leatl ])aint t)r coal tar. Do not over-fertilizeor over-c-uitivate the oichard. Sriuw Tahlk roH Aim-lks, Peaics a.\u Qiinx-es. Time. Materuu Pl-BTOdl. I. Before the buda swell. (oncentrutr<i comniorciul Umc-
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