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Excerpt from Text-Book of the Diseases of Trees The foundation of a science of Mycology by Berkeley, de Bary, and Tulasne, pursued by Brefeld, Zopf, and others, has led to a knowledge of the biology of fungi highly creditable to the industrious observers who have explored this domain of the vegetable kingdom; while the gradual building up of the science of plant-physiology from the days of Knight and Hales, De Saussure and Boussingault, to those of Sachs and Pfeffer, has placed us in possession of a vast amount of information as regards normal life processes in plants. Until much more recently, however, it cannot be said that we have had a science of the pathology of plants - i.e. the study of abnormal physiology - of anything like the same importance, in spite of the splendid and progressive attempts of Berkeley, Frank, and Sorauer to found one. In the particular department he has cultivated, Robert Hartig has succeeded in founding a plant-pathology really worthy of the name, and I would especially emphasize this, that his researches are so thoroughly elucidative of pathological phenomena, in that he studies not only the nature of the structural lesions and of the physiological disturbances consequent on these, but also the factors of the environment which throw light on the question. 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.