The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-23

while the number OF species plants reached nearly
enormously the number of the latter while increased
the number OF the species known by bur
few From this will be that the number species Of
fungi and other parasitic saprophyc plants any
IS likely to be very great.
Wnen turn attention to the number OF individuals of
each OF these kinds OF plants find disparity fairly
appalling The number OF trees in forest the number Of
blades OF grass prairie great as have become
popular s1mlle for whatever is countless.
But these numbers high those representing the album
dance OF the plants vastly higher drop of
may thousands of ugrown nongreen plants
For plant that stands of ground there
lie in the soil its base hundreds OF thousands nongreen
plants Some of these, many of them among the
worst enemies of man and his crops
OF course each of this vast host of individuals is small
often small be invisible but there consolation
that To tell that the plague microbe invisible ONLY
adds to its If cannot it how fight it?
An invisible enemy is the difficult fight | must fight
all space the risk of missing him.
We have glanced ordinary cell Let
bring under view the of fungus
AS before remarked the fungi probably de-
green plants agal race 1t is customary
that they have degeneraed through parasitic
habits am not that this is fortunate expression.
builders of starch they have become the pirates and
robbers, to speak of the organic world Whether
tiger and other canvoa degenerate Nor the
eagle tribe the degenerates On the contrary both
these types often placed the head OF their respective
groups Those who speak the fungi degenerate plant
possibly fail to recognize in them the superior qualities tha
are undoubtedly present That the lion has lost the.
of subsstng grass does make him inferior
the cattle who still that faculty In the
the hon probably regarded the higher Of types
certain qualities Of of which strength courage and intelligence
he must excel
In entirely similar it me- the fungi
their relatives have acquired in the absence of the
build starch and allied carbohydrates comparable
those of the canivora They have lost the of making
starch but they have become arveousy in the
attributes it is dtlcut to see how call them degen
crate in breath while call the lion and the eagle i'm
proved in the next
There nothing like giving your enemy credit
he 1t policy from which your campaign
able of the fungi other plants and animals
will that wholesome for them without which
E1o1r+o ,,oI1a h1,pIa
However the foregoing ideas may be received there
question about the fact that the plants require
and other Some OF them their food in living
condition and thus like the tiger while others like the
subsist organisms long dead There
enemies of cane among both these groups.
One OF the most important things understand in
with the the
their reproductions for this feature OF their life histories
often turn the most of the remedies we are able to
apply. We glanced at,
growth of the plant The growth OF plant
is some respects similar consists in division of cells
until certain when enough food for the purpose
has been accumulated they fructif 1t seldom that the
plants attain size at all comparable that of
of the green plants and consequence they rule
attain maturity earlier age Their life cycle
some cases occupies but few days possibly in instances
only few hours They form compond tissues seldom usually
contenng themselves with nea succession of cells which form
threads which in some cases woven together into tissues OF
considerable completely such in the mushrooms
When they have attained their full size they proceed
Spores bodies comparable respects seeds
of the plants though really vastly different their real
The resemblance consists in the fact that they
that cast off, through which the organism be
epanted 1t impossible here into the various methods
methods may be compared boy blowing bubbles
Given of the modern bubble machines and the restless
that exists in the ordinary boy and you witness
the production of almost endless of bubbles
floating off into space Given fully ripe fungus, and n
almost similar the formation OF
the ends of certain fungus haens with prod
gious fecundity that almost defes description.
single will produce literally
million. So the numbers representing the album
dance the spores certain that the best
do is make feeble attempt comprehend them A
single smutted head is large enough contain mil
lion spores Twenty million spores of the peach leaf
curl fungus might single inch of diseased
peach leaf There be thousands OF such leaves
single diseased single grain of snauted wheat may
million spores. There may be several thou
sands of such grains wheat plant These numbers
produced from single diseased plant great
that the spread evenly of ground
there would be hundreds square inch surface
have fields where the number of the
Rindungu exceeded million million In other words
million to inch This refers the spores that
could have my finger if necessary The number that
was lost to view doubtless greater still.