January 23, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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second year ; they afterward come smaller and more fuzzy 

 than the normal fruit. The first symptom to appear on the 

 trees, rather than on the fruit, is the so-called " tips," that is, 

 the short undergrowth starting from the upper or terminal 

 buds, usually late in the season and characterized by narrow. 



limbs, and in advanced cases the shoots may branch into close 

 bunchy tufts. In the final stage of the disease there is a small and 

 slender growth of all new wood with small narrow yellowish 

 leaves, and occasionally a profusion of slender branchy growths 

 in the centre of the tree. E)iseased trees die generally'in five or 



Fij^. 5. — Protea Cynaroides. — See page 34, 



Stiff, yellowish, small leaves standing out nearly at right angles 

 from the shoot. These tips sometimes appear after the leaves 

 have fallen in autumn, or before the normal growth begins in 

 spring, and they are often seen upon the ends of water-sprouts. 

 The third special symptom is the slender, stiff-leaved, yellow- 

 ish shoots which come from the body of the tree, or the large 



six years from the first attack, and the only known means of 

 keeping the disease at bay is to exterminate the affected trees, 

 root and branch. The disease is communicated to nurserv 

 stock by affected buds and by buds from branches of affected 

 trees which do not yet show signs of the disease. Pits from 

 affected trees may also be expected to propagate the disease. 



