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Excerpt from A Text-Book of Plant Diseases: Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites The aim of this book is to enable those directly occupied in the cultivation of plants, and with but a limited period of time available for study, to determine the nature of diseases caused by parasites of vegetable origin; to apply in the most approved manner those curative and preventive methods which experience has shown to be most successful in combating the particular form of disease under consideration; and finally, to include in the daily routine of work precautionary measures which, without being costly, frequently prevent a slight disease from assuming the proportions of an epidemic. Those desirous of obtaining fuller information respecting the life-history of the parasites mentioned in this book, also of others not included, can do so by consulting the literature indicated under the different species. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.