Treatment of Ornamental White Pines Infected With Blister Rust (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Treatment of Ornamental White Pines Infected With Blister Rust The blister rust is an insidious disease. It may be present in a locality for a number of years before infection on pine trees becomes evident to the casual observer. Owners of valuable ornamental pines will usually fail to notice any signs of the disease until some of the small trees and the large branches of old trees are killed. Often when this happens the pines have become infected so heavily that they can not be saved without destroying their ornamental value. The disease has been present in most of the infected localities for comparatively few years, so that immediate action will result in sav ing nearly all of the ornamental pines. In many local areas the na tive pines are rapidly becoming infected. This is emphasized by recent surveys in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, where the inspection of native pines on 99 miles 'of rod wide strip lines showed approximately 10 per cent of the trees already diseased. Do not wait until your pines begin to die (fig. But protect them immediately. Delay means ultimate loss. 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.