THE GARDEN PRIMER 



to their mature beauty and usefulness with all the hope 

 the heart of a garden-maker can hold. 



Fungous plant-diseases are quite as much to be 

 dreaded as attacks from insect foes upon plant life. 

 We can hardly cure their mischief, but, to a great extent, 

 we can prevent their occurrence by spraying and, in 

 some measure, check the spread of blight or anthracnose 

 likewise. 



As only a microscope will disclose to us just where 

 the minute fungi spores are lodging themselves, it be- 

 comes necessary to prevent the possibility of their ap- 

 pearing at all, even if, in seasons past, our trees and 

 shrubs and vines and plants seem to have been free from 

 disease. Not only must they be sprayed once but often, 

 as the effect of liquid spraying (which has great advan- 

 tage over dust spraying) is cumulative. The first spray- 

 ing may not reach tiny spores tucked away in budding 

 portions of the plant, which, when these come into 

 branching proportions then present the disease upon 

 a surface that must be reached by subsequent spray 

 application. Nevertheless all the spraying in the world 

 will be rendered futile if your neighbor's trees, shrubs 

 vines or plants are diseased and still do not receive like 

 attention. Therefore one of the first things to do is to 

 prevail on him to have his spraying done coincident 

 with yours, and if he remains indifferent to the matter 

 it is far better for you to bear the expense of doing it 

 for him than to subject your trees to danger from con- 

 tamination. Indeed, the matter of communal effort 

 in this direction is of such importance that many 



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