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the tree and quite covered roots at the crown.  This treatment
will thoroughly cook the millions of threadlike fibers of the
fungi, which, with a glass, may be found beneath the bark of
the roots.  By digging around the peach tree with the Yellows,
there will be found a very sensible "Mushroomy" smell which
is occasioned by the fungus growth beneath the bark.  Of
these fungus fibers the Gardener's Monthly says: 'These eat
the young fibers, and leave only the main root, through which
all the nutriment of the plant has to be gathered; and as an
old root is unable to do much more than draw in water, the
tree becomes in a measure starved, and the leaves become yellow,
just as they would be if growing in poor soil, which,
though the plant  might have plenty of roots, furnished nothing
for the roots to eat.  To have plenty of roots and no food,
is equivalent to plenty of food and no roots.  The effect
on the plant is just the same.  Hence, remedies which look
to the destruction of this root parasite are employed.  Hot
water has done it; so has a weak solution of salt; others
have found a solution of potash succeed. The exact nature
of this fungus has not been  investigated to entire satisfaction.
This one may enter into the circulation of the plant
and exist in that <s>state</s> case as an apparently distinct species,
        