Milford chronicle., 1885-05-22

THE vr,LOws IN PEACH TREES.

This mysterious disease which mas
ca devastated the peach growing sec
lions TO the northward and eastward Oh
tbi- State. and is rapidly spreaUlns
westward. is now working It's way
sor,,ward. 1t has already done great
injury in New Castle county, ana mas
made its appearance in Kent down as
for os Dover and if not soon extirpateu
ILL in twenty-five or thirty years ue-
s,roy one of the greatest and most
nromising sources Of wealth TO the peoe
rloof the Peninsula. The raising Oi
cottIe is at present nothing like OF as
much pecuniary value to the people as
is reach growing; yet our laW-iii"Ne'5
onnct riuid laws to prevent the spreau
Of nIeuro-pneumonia and other con
tac;ous diseases among cattle; but win
hat-eved blindness neglect to take SIM
;Ior measures to prevent the spread Oh
this equally infectious disease -,
Botanists and pOmologists are a'iNe
IGNORANT of the causes Of this disease,
Torious theories have been advanced
> 70 occount for it, but they do not APP
no.,v to he based upon well ascertained
! fac,s. or to have been we'll tested by
+ CRITICAL and accurate scientific invesVl'
n cation. All we know, is when ana
V where it originated and the disas trous
If ELECTS which it has produced. 1t orig
i mated in the neighborhood OF Fnlia
o deInhia in 1897, spreading rapiul!
,e through the neighboring border 0
lie Delaware, through Maryland, NewJer
re sew reaching New York IN lool' au'
y hence eastward through tho New EN-
IN Gland States, and later westward wher
IS # almost totally destroyed the then e2
=. - listing orchards.
Is The symptoms of the disease are
g we'll known to our readers, that "
81 deem If unnecessary to describe then
=, Tbere is no doubt. that stocks Eais'
~ -, tho seeds of diseased trees WI
Ss i've the disease to buds inserted
them from perfectly healthy tree
p,,ds from diseased trees budded III
to DerfectIv healthy stocks still retain u
a disease. which the healthy stock 40
.is- not cure or modify, for it VIII sue
ru- i,self in the growth of the first seaso
nu- Noitber are healthy stocks ana Oh
n1' from healthy trees any protecti
uo ooainst the disease. If growing ne
tne diseased tree they will be infected
a ;Do II This fact goes to sustain the thee
70 of those who think that the iniee,,
.ort &c convened by means of the poll
Inn. vben the trees are in bloom. But
and we shall presently see, it may be &C
2 in viewed at other times.
amt Plants, like animals, are suoleet
Will oanorene. In plants there are
the Iiuds the dry and the moist. The f
rim attacks the woody parts Of plants st
own NJ the woody stems Ofshrubs and TT
the and is frequently found attacking
erly borl, of apple and pear trees, when
pre- known as canlzer. The second alta
for nlants of succulent growth sueh
here oocti cueumbers, melons, baisams
'ure, similar plants. The cell tissue 10 s
the cases. are found to contain fore
will grannles of a dark color, and 80
hose fines a vibris, or species of micro
car 'iinss '.,a,onIe 10 found in them.
mere was long question among botan
coz investigators whether the fungi
i''se- tected in diseased Of decayed veg
are -. ,,,ss the cause Of the dis
end. bic matter'was .ne 49,. S'.s7 NJ, were
once and decay or Wne.ns. ~ -.'s'.,,ons
it of suit. The latest lnyess .esraot
elect fungi may be divided into two ella
T sin viz: parasitic, or those Wii'sn -
still their carbon from living plah'A