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ThcWeekly Florists' Review. 



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Dbcbmbbb 20, 1904. 



♦♦DAMPINGOFF.'* 



Although the nature of plant diseases 

 and the methods of combatting them 

 have been frequently brought before gar- 

 deners, it is to be feared that compara- 

 tively few individuals have practically 

 applied this knowledge. This indiffer- 

 ence is no doubt to a large extent due 

 to their seldom experiencing a serious 

 epidemic. Another reason for it is that 

 the books dealing with plant diseases are 

 not well known, while most are written 

 in scientific language, that is not easily 

 understood by the laity. There are few 

 gardeners whose plants have not at some 

 time or other suffered from fungus dis- 

 eases, but as long as the consequences 

 have not been serious they have escaped 

 attention, or been ascribed to accidental 

 causes. 



One of the most frequent diseases oc- 

 curs in seedling plants of almost any 

 kind. The young plants, when still in 

 the seed-bed, blacken, decay and die off 

 in patches. The disease spreads rapidly 

 from bed to bed, but is often confined 

 to one frame or to one house. This is 

 caused by a parasitic fungus named 

 Pythium Debaryanum, Hesse, the minute 

 fipores of which are carried about in the 

 air, and are caught by the damp surface 

 of the seedling stem. There they germi- 

 nate, pushing a fine tube through the 

 soft and tender skin of the stem. This 

 tube quickly branches, forming a mass 

 of fine threads called "mycelium," or 

 spawn, which penetrate the cells of the 

 fieedling, absorbing nutriment and caus- 

 ing death of the young plant. Numerous 

 «pores are then produced which quickly 

 spread the disease. This is usually, 

 though somewhat incorrectly, called 

 ■" damping-off " (it might be more cor- 

 rectly called "black stem") of seedlings, 

 and it Is ascribed to an excess of water. 

 Where the beds are kept for a time in a 

 •dry condition, the disease often wholly 

 disappears, because the spores require 

 moisture external to the seedlings to en- 

 able them to germinate. This disease is 

 consequently favored by too thick sow- 

 ing, which prevents light and air from 

 ireely reaching the soil. The disease is 

 therefore rarely met with in a bed with 

 ' ' pricked - off " seedlings. — Gardeners ' 

 Chronicle. 



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