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Fig. 2. — Blighted Foliage. 

 late years, and last year the apples were unusually scabby. The 

 wet spring afforded it just the conditions for rapid growth. It 

 appears to be somewhat worse upon low and undrained lands 

 than upon high and warm elevations, although the latter are 

 never by any means exempt in the infected regions. Some 

 growers think that the scant foliaged varieties, like Spitzeuburg, 

 are most seriously injured. The growth of the wood is very 

 scant because of the unhealthy foliage. 



A closely related species {Fusicladium pyrinum, by some re- 

 garded as identical with the other) attacks the pear, both fruit 

 and foliage, and it has probably caused much of the failure in 

 tlie pear crop this year. Upon the pear leaf the fungus has a 

 tendency to remain in more or less definite spots, probably be- 



