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The disease began to be troublesome in Surinam 

 between the years 1895 and 1900, and wandered from 



FIG. 86. Fighting the Surinam witch-broom disease. 

 The tree is being sprayed with bluestone solution, after having been pollarded. 



one district to another. The loss caused may be under- 

 stood from the figures given in Chapter IX. (Surinam), 



