The garden primer; a practical handbook on the elements of gardening for beginners by Tabor Grace

Author:Tabor, Grace. [from old catalog] & Teall, Gardner Callahan, 1878- [from old catalog] joint author
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Gardening. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, McBride, Winston & co.
Published: 1910-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

THE GARDEN PRIMER

to their mature beauty and usefulness with all the hope the heart of a garden-maker can hold.

Fungous plant-diseases are quite as much to be dreaded as attacks from insect foes upon plant life. We can hardly cure their mischief, but, to a great extent, we can prevent their occurrence by spraying and, in some measure, check the spread of blight or anthracnose likewise.

As only a microscope will disclose to us just where the minute fungi spores are lodging themselves, it becomes necessary to prevent the possibility of their appearing at all, even if, in seasons past, our trees and shrubs and vines and plants seem to have been free from disease. Not only must they be sprayed once but often, as the effect of liquid spraying (which has great advantage over dust spraying) is cumulative. The first spraying may not reach tiny spores tucked away in budding portions of the plant, which, when these come into branching proportions then present the disease upon a surface that must be reached by subsequent spray application. Nevertheless all the spraying in the world will be rendered futile if your neighbor's trees, shrubs vines or plants are diseased and still do not receive like attention. Therefore one of the first things to do is to prevail on him to have his spraying done coincident with yours, and if he remains indifferent to the matter it is far better for you to bear the expense of doing it for him than to subject your trees to danger from contamination. Indeed, the matter of communal effort in this direction is of such importance that many

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