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prematurely, and thus checking- ^'^rowth and preventing- proper 

 ripening of the wood and maturing of the buds."* 



F^is;. 2q. Thk Ai'i'i I'm.' ah on ihc loaves. 



A disease so abundant and so wide-spread as the apple-scab 

 probably cannot at present be wholly kept out of either orchard or 



nursery, but it is 

 nevertheless bad pol- 

 ioy to distribute its 

 germs with nursery 

 trees if this can be 

 prevented. It would 

 probably be sufficient 

 for practical pur- 

 poses if nursery trees 



Fig. ^o. 



Tae Avple-scab on appks. 

 badly infested with this scab or blight were withheld from market 

 and destroyed. 



*H. Carman, Koniuckv Bulletin No. So. 



