Excerpt from The Principal Diseases of Citrous Fruits in Florida It is the purpose of this bulletin to give, in as brief and concise a manner as possible, an account of some of the principal diseases of citrous fruits, especially those occurring in Florida. The following are the diseases which we will endeavor to describe and illustrate: Blight, die-back or exanthema, scab or verrucosis, sooty mold, foot rot or mal-di-gomma, and melanose. The diseases of citrous fruits have received more or less attention from the Department, through the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, since the year 1886. In 1891 Prof. L. M. Underwood was sent to Florida to make a preliminary study of this subject. Later the same year one of the writers, with Dr. Erwin F. Smith, was sent to Florida. To carry on further studies, especially on blight, and the fol lowing spring the former returned to continue the work. In the fall of 1892 a Slightly increased appropriation enabled the Department to station both writers regularly in Florida. A laboratory especially erected for the purpose was donated by the citizens Of Eustis, Fla., and this point was made our headquarters. Since the completion of the building both laboratory and field investigations have been carried on continuously, with highly gratifying results. Melanose, an entirely new disease, has been studied and remedies for it discovered. Satisfactory remedies or preventives have also been found for all the other diseases mentioned above, foot rot being the only one which could be said to be under control when the work was commenced. Much information has been collected in relation to the causes of the various diseases and their effects on the plants attacked. 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.