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aDDlication of quicklime does much to loosen the soil and has also 
Zked fungicidal properties. As much as one or one-and-a-half 
tons to an acre may well be applied. 
The fungicidal properties of good quicklime are well-known, but 
there is much difficulty in obtaining good quicklime m many places 
mmmrn 
bu dan« afbefore. The failure of the vapour to kill of the rnyce hum 
Wa \tureof\ e he t soil'andtcfthe P snia 1 ll diffusion* of th^vapour in damp 
tSe marke^° 1 ajid''which Appears” to 'lmve met with^omesutxess,* wjjj 
S! y ^:Xt^t a ^^ e the%^infsucha 
and 0 tlm"Ttampy, b and g whe"^ the result .of scarcity 
preTouf cul^^" e ^p e p^ 
nr nf the absence of good methods drainage and of treatment ot 
to the establishment of good methods of cultivation. 
The work on the life-history of the fungus and on such factors 
as the spre d of the disease and its method of treatment is in pro- 
gress and" will be published in a separate Bulletin of the department. 
HymenocUete noxia. Berk., appears to be present in .this ^country 
ss csr t£l z-cSr csu " 4 c p=, it 
was recorded in Samoa as early as 1875, and it is now know _ 
somewhat widely distributed through the 
this country and in Ceylon there appears to be some ^nstderab^ 
difficulty in obtaining fruiting specimens, while ^ 
material which I have examined from West Afiw* the 
appears to fruit abundantly The dtse ase is k ^ it is 
root” disease, an • ' n P fawn-coloured strands on the roots 
easily identified by the presence u. t ^ rlnrk-brown 
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