340 ON BLIGHT. 



cause, is the first to be attacked by it. When 

 care is taken that the trees are not bruised 

 by any means, and properly trained, also 

 that they are watered, &c. as directed in this 

 treatise; it will but rarely happen that they 

 are affected by a blight. 



When a garden is situated in a low, and 

 close situation, fruit trees are in such a place 

 more liable to be attacked by blight, than in 

 a situation of an opposite kind, and in 

 the spring, fruit trees in the circumstances 

 above stated, will sometimes be effected 

 by blight which will destroy the part so 

 injured in a day or two; against such 

 a blight I know no preventive equal to 

 the following. Just before sun rise, let the 

 trees be sprinkled over with soft water, which 

 sprinkling acts as a medium betwixt the ex- 

 tremes of sharp spring frosts succeeded by 

 hot sunny days. A permanent covering 

 during spring is also a preventive of this 

 injury. 



When a branch or two upon a tree is 

 affected by blight, it may be perceived by 

 the withering of the leaves, which will occa- 

 sionally be immediately attacked by numer- 

 ous insects. Whenever this is the case, let 

 the tree be smoked, and afterwards let the 

 injured part be well washed with soap suds, 

 and then be sprinkled with sulphur, this 

 will sometimes stop the disease; but if the 

 affected part so washed, &c. does not appear 



