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CHAPTER XXVII. 



OF THE MILDEW, HONEY-DEW, AND BLIGHTS. 



A Defcription of the Mildew, and a Remedy for it — Of the Honey- 

 dew and its Remedy— A Defcription of different Sorts of Blights, 

 and the beft Means of preventing them. 



Of the Mildew. 



1 HE Mildew, a difeafe very hurtful to plants, is a kind of 

 thick clammy moifture, which falls on, or rather tranfpires 

 from, the leaves and blofToms of plants. This clammy fub- 

 ftance, by flopping up the pores, prevents perfpiration, and 

 hinders the growth of the plant. But what is commonly 

 called mildew is an infect which is frequently found in vaft 

 numbers feeding upon this moifture. Mr. T. S. Segar, in a 

 treatife upon this fubjecl:, fays, that the mildew is of a very 

 fharp corrofive nature, and by its acrimony hinders the circu- 

 lation of the nutritious fap ; in confequence of which the leaves 

 begin to fade, and the blofToms and fruit are greatly injured. 



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