Excerpt from Instructions to Prevent the Blight Incident to Peach, Nectarine and Other Fruit Trees The vernal months, promotes vegeta tion, brings them alfo into life at the very juncture when the trees are ca pahle of affording them nourifhment. It is wonderful to obferve their ln jurious effects on the young {hoots, where they principally abound. The fap and nouriihment the former would otherwife receive fromthe tree is fo palpably intercepted, that they make little or no progrefs while thefe ver min remain. The leaves are not only prevented growing to their ufual fize, but in general much coiled or curled up, and their ihape. Confiderably djfl torted. Thefe infects may be found. Of different growths on the under and hollow part of the leaf; here they increafe rapidly, and as any new. Leaf arifes within their reach, they extend the1r empire, by invading it. But they only continue for a time, as the feafon may chance to fuit them. The calmelt weather, as has been. 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.

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