Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical / by John Percival.

  • Percival, John, 1863-1949.
Date:
1900
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical / by John Percival. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MASSEE, GEORGE. A Text-Book of Plant Diseases. By GEORGE MASSEE, F.L.S., Mycologist and Principal Assistant, Royal Herbarium, Kew. With 92 Illustrations Drawn from Nature by the Author. Crown 8vo. 5s. net. The object of the present book is to supply the demand for a hand-book of plant diseases which shall not be too technical to be wholly intelligible to those who have not had the advantage of a thorough scientific training, but which shall be at the same time sufficiently thorough to be of use to those of more advanced know- ledge. It aims at enabling the practical farmer, horticulturist, or forester, in Great Britain or the Colonies, to recognise the particular disease from which the plants under his care may be suffering. It also contains a description of the most approved practical curative and preventive methods applicable in each case. Epidemics and waves of disease are fully discussed in the introductory chapters, together with the economic aspect of plant diseases, and illustrations of the benefit to be derived from following definite rules which are arrived at through a study of the life-history of the parasites. The leading aim of the author is not to write over the heads of those for whom the book is intended, but, by means of simple lan- guage and careful drawings made from nature, to enable those who are concerned with the cultivation of plants to determine the nature of diseases caused by parasites, and to apply the most approved curative and preventive methods which, without causing any addition to the cost of an establishment, will, on the other hand, often add considerably to its revenue.