A text-book of plant diseases caused by cryptogamic parasites / by George Massee.

  • Massee, George, 1850-1917.
Date:
1899
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A text-book of plant diseases caused by cryptogamic parasites / by George Massee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    9/488
    PREFACE The aim of this book is to enable those directly occupied in the cultivation of plants, and with but a limited period of time available for study, to determine the nature of diseases caused by parasites of vegetable origin • to apply in the most approved manner those curative and preven- tive methods which experience has shown to be most successful in combating the particular form of disease under consideration ; and finally, to include in the daily routine of work precautionary measures which, without being costly, frequently prevent a slight disease from assuming the proportions of an epidemic. Those desirous of obtaining fuller information respecting the life-history of the parasites mentioned in this book, also of others not included, can do so by consulting the literature indicated under the different species. In con- nection with this part of the subject, it may be well to state definitely that success in the study of plant diseases, or Vegetable Pathology, must necessarily be preceded by a correct knowledge of the broad principles of the normal mode of plant life, known as Vegetable Physiology • and