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FUXGI AXD fu:n'Gicides 



tissues, which the fungus under consideration first 

 produces. 



Treatment. — The burning of fallen catalpa leaves 

 in autumn is an advisable preventive measure. Proba- 

 bly early sprayings with Bordeaux mixture, or some sim- 

 ilar fungicide^ would prove an effectual remedy. 



The only important article on this subject that has 

 come to the writer's notice may be found in the report 



a c 



FIG. 51. CATALPA LEAF-SPOT. 



«, Section sli owing spore production ; spores; spores germinating. Magnified. 



of the United States Department of Agriculture for 

 1887 (pp. 364-366). 



The Cottonwood Leaf = rust 



Melampsova popiilina 



The leaves of poplars and cottonwoods are quite 

 commonly covered on the underside with an orange col- 

 ored powder, which consists of the spores of a rust fun- 

 gus. Such leaves usually fall prematurely, so that the 

 trees may be defoliated long before the proper time. 

 Later in the season the orange powder is replaced on the 

 leaf by reddish brown, waxy pustules. This is the win- 

 ter stage of the fungus. Eaking and burning fallen 

 leaves is advised, as a remedial measure. This fungus 

 is discussed in the 1888 Eeport of the Department of 

 Agriculture (pp. 390-392). Eecent experiments have 



