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nursery stage of growth are most commonly 

 attacked, though instances are on record of 

 the foliage on tender shoots of old trees being 

 damaged by this parasitic fungus. Few of 

 our commonly cultivated coniferous trees 

 would appear to come amiss to the attacks of 

 the Botrytis, the larch, owing no doubt to the 

 quantity in which it is grown in this country, 

 suffering most. Two-, three-, and four-year- 

 old seedlings are the favourite host of the 

 fungus, and it attacks not only the common and 

 Japanese larch, but Scotch, Austrian, mountain, 

 and other pines, the silver and Douglas firs, 

 common and weeping spruce, as also the 

 deciduous cypress and Wellingtonia. In 

 affected seedlings the first indication of the 

 attack is a sickly appearance of the leaves, 

 followed by contortions of the shoot ; though, 

 curious to state, the lower portion of a stem 

 may only be attacked, as if the infection pro- 

 ceeded direct from the soil. The diseased 

 leaves fall off prematurely, as do also the tips 

 of affected shoots ; and though the attack may 

 not at once kill the tree, repeated onslaughts 

 render young plants worthless for planting out. 



