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Excerpt from Fungus Diseases of Cabbage and Cauliflower in Victoria, and Their Treatment: With Six Coloured Plates and Figures
In short, the disease has to be diagnosed before remedial or preventive measures can be intelligently applied. And just as the laws of health have to be observed among our selves in order that the body may be fully and properly developed, so there is a plant hygiene requiring that it be surrounded with healthy conditions and provided with suit able food, if it is to thrive properly. Hence attention has to be paid to the cultivation of the soil, to drainage, to manuring, and to the selection of varieties suited to the district, as well as direct treatment for the specific disease.
The plant must have all its needs supplied if it is to grow up vigorous and healthy, and the frequent stirring of the soil is necessary in order that the roots may be well aerated, that they may act freely in absorbing nourishment, and that the soil constituents may be rendered readily available. Good cultivation, in short, will produce proper aeration of the soil, will conserve the moisture by forming a surface mulch to prevent rapid evaporation, and will destroy the weeds, which not only rob the soil of valuable plant-food, but are in many cases harboring disease. Cold, wet, sour land is unfavorable for growth, and drainage is necessary in such cases. It also increases the effect of manures, or, as the growers say, manures act better with drainage, because they are more thoroughly dissolved and reach the feeding roots of. The plant.
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