The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-23
THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISERS, HONOLULU, NJ
usual way but wholly or partially

erect
As before explained the excessive passes through
the breathing pores the leaves and the rolling referred
to the out INTO the air.
Il will also be noticed that plant will have
stool smaller than the ordinary There also
fewer canes and these very much smaller
Another characteristic symptom OF Root Disease is seen
examining the sheats of the lower leaves In normal cases
tneg dry L up Of Root Diase these lower leaf sheahs
become very closely together around the and
requires considerable drag them In add
ion 70 the mating together Of the lower leaf sheahs
also that they have musty smell and making
you will white threadke strands run
ming in and among and through them These strands
and instead of proceeding definite strands
they broaden into white, fiat te1ke plates Some
times the strand again work.
but always has the gistenng snowwte
white threads strands, and plates really the
causes root disease "Nyceium" is term used
ton fungi and corresponds all the vegeative
of green plant The mycelum performs all the functions OF
the and leaves of plants and IS as say
simply the vegetative part OF the fungus
take away the matted leaf sheaths from the stem,
another symptom disease disclosed the ROOTS
which developing the nodes In
they are not more than from orequarer 10 oeha1 OF an
inch long, and sometimes that long while IN all cases
they appear have had their growth suned in cases
the roots have developed some distance before the
growth has stopped By examining the tips OF these stunted
closely will observe that they look unhealthy that
they dull dark brown black color and hattened
The stunted often found embedded in the felt work OF
fungus myceium This is OF the signs of the root
disease, sheatls with the white myceium in
underneath them the stuned Again if
anime about the base of the diseased will still
bi i % op the end Of The season YOU
attempt pull diseased stool you will find
up quite easily; with normal stool OF want con-
siderable force to the stool The roots in the soil as
these very feeble something has happened
them which them from performing their
functions of whicl anchor the plant in the soil
By way say that you imagine that
every you white myse1ium the soil that you have
got the root disease There several fungi that have very
similar myceium this They differ microscopicay,
however By making examination of such myceia under
the microscope think can tell some the most common
anyway but there is absolutely difference between
them the naked eye. You find them in fields, of
fields and all where there decayng vegetable
Ii find the OF disease the
find the white mycelum about the
of the the soil this myceum would probably be that
OF the root fungus. not send them out to
the Experiment Station, and will look them Some
times these islands root disease attacks the early
Cane attacked by disease this stage yellow and
almost white, and looks it would die After few
weeks often turns green and apparently RECEIVERS
tirey you examine closely however, will find
that good of these young have actually
been killed by disease and that is point which
want to lay that the apparent recovery not in all
SCI are tid off o. course ON ttee voSne shoots Won find
the white mycelum that find on the older shoots
an effect on sermnation do not think there is anv doubt
that believe that discussed
the last planters meeting Judge from the planters re-
ting from field in which there disease you will find
that of the buds do not grow The percentage OF ger
mnation less than where the soil free from the
fungus and you soon see the cause buds
have started to Sometimes they make good start
attacked by the fungus and then the fungus
grows the bud sheans. The white myceium spreads
the bud heaths cementng them together and some
chokes the life of the eye it
In other after young shoots have been attacked
with the fungus their growth has been vigorous that
the shoot has from the fungus that to say
has grown that the fungus could keep with
If the bud in any way checked in growth, that is If its
growth weak then the fungus mycelum would cement
the bud seals together that the choked to death
few words about the root fungus itself AS
before explained the fungus consists Of the white strands or
threads If of the strands under high magn1
hcaton the strand be composed OF number OF very
fine threads these the hyphae of the fungus winch to-
geler the myceium. In the strands the hyPhae
mostly the direction along the long OF the thread
but rather regularly inerbranching and Intervening
enough to make the compact whole At the end
all directions and form kind of
they growing they anywhere
where there is any food
about this that is interesting to and
who has think there way
of identifying this myceium and distinguishing from some
other and that the CRYSTALS the hyphae In the
fungus, Tin nearly every have examned) have
these standing from the thread They