Report of Botanist (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report of Botanist The green mold of cheese is a fungus of similar general habits. With many other fungi, the mycelium can live only within the tissues of certain plants. Many of these latter are familiar to every farmer, and are sources of serious loss to him every year. The common smut on corn is simply a great mass of black spores, similar to the spores produced in the puff-ball. But while the mycelium of the puff-ball grows in decaying vegetable matter the mycelium of the corn smut makes its home in the tissues of the corn plant, and draws its nourishment from them. The smuts of oats, barley, and other grains, are likewise the spores of other closely related fungi. The common red rust found so plentifully on the stalks and leaves of oats and other grains, is again the spores of a fungus the mycelium of which grows within the grain plant. The black rust of these grains, which usually appears a little later in the season than the red rust, is another kind of spore produced by the same fungus. These black spores have thicker coats and live through the winter, while the red spores are killed by the frost. Some common fungous diseases that have been observed during the past year are discussed more fully in the remainder of this report, together with the results of experiments with remedies for them. 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.