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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
AMATEUR, H.B.—Your celery Is attacked by "celery heart rot." , due to a fnngus known as Sclerotinia selerotiarum. Inthe present stage there is no cure, and diseased stems should be lifted ana burned as soon as found; if left about to rot the possibility is that the disease will be communicated to your celery plants next year. This disease is one wtlch attacks varions vegetables in different forms, but the same fungus Is the cause. Cslng fresh stable manure favours the disease.
By DIANTHUS.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 14
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