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kind is not encouraging to the growth of fungi. It is advisable and 

 beneficial to fork in unslaked lime round the trees adjacent to one 

 already killed by the fungus. 

 The planter must aim at 



1. Starving the fungus by isolation and removing all wood on 

 which it may live. 



2. Killing it by exposure to the sun and by applying lime. 



The diagram on this page indicates the methods to be followed, and 

 which have been carried out with success by several planters. The 



black lines represent trenches : the dots trees ; the one within the in- 

 ner circle representing the tree on which the disease has been dis- 

 covered, the others are to all appearances healthy. If several adjacent 

 trees are dead or known to be diseased then the inner trench must 

 be made to enclose them. 



The trenches shoud be a foot and a half deep and nine inches to a 

 foot wide. The earth taken out should be thrown to the inside of the 

 trenches. The area enclosed by the inner trench should be turned 



