ON MILDEW. 



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all fractured parts be pruned clean away, so 

 that it is brought to as smooth a state as 

 possible, and if it be judged that wet is likely 

 to be retained without some precaution being 

 used, let an application of the mixture as 

 directed for cankered wounds, be given. 



Those trees that are affected with gum 

 may be treated in the same manner, by 

 dressing off the diseased part and applying 

 the composition as directed. 



On Mildew. 



Peach and Nectarine trees are very fre- 

 quently attacked by this disease, particularly 

 so in a low damp situation, because in such 

 there is generally stagnant water at the 

 bottom of the soil, which is almost certain 

 to produce the mildew without great atten- 

 tion has been paid to draining, Sec. 



There are some kinds of Peach and Nec- 

 tarine trees very subject to this disease, and 

 in which it seems to be inherent, but more 

 or less appears according to the favourable- 

 ness or unfavourableness of the situation in 

 which they are planted; or as they may be 

 affected by the weather, which will also pro- 

 duce it. For although a border be properly 

 made and adapted to the trees, yet if very 

 foggy weather continues for a few days, and 

 the soil of the border is not in a state of 



