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Fig. 173. Raspberry Cane Blight. (Photograph by F. C. Stewart) 



Stewart states : 



The whole cane may be involved or only a portion of it. Often a single 

 branch is killed while the remainder of the cane continues alive and appar- 

 ently normal. In the majority of cases only a part of the cane dies. With 

 black caps the disease frequently starts in the old stub left in pruning. From 



