Excerpt from Fungoid Diseases of Farm and Garden Crops This introduction to the study of Plant Diseases has been compiled primarily for the use of Farmers, Gardeners, and Agricultural Students, but it is hoped that it may have a wider field of influence, and that those engaged in teaching and County lecturing may find in its pages material of interest and of value. 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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Excerpt from Fungoid Disease of Agricultural Plants The increased facilities of intercourse between different countries which characterise modern civilization have proved an important factor in the diffusion of plant-diseases. The organisms associated with these diseases, which do untold damage by diminishing the world's supplies of food and fodder, pay scant respect to such human devices as tariff zones and political frontiers. But if the organisms in question be disquietingly cosmopolitan, the workers whose energies are devoted to the study of their life-histories, to the control of their activities, and to the mitigation of the evil consequences they induce, are also, fortunately, cosmopolitan. Nowhere is the solidarity of science more benignly manifested, and nothing connected with the amenities of human intercourse is more satisfactory than the neighbourliness with which these workers in every land place the results of their labours at the disposal of countries other than their own. 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.