FALLEN FRUIT
PREVENTING CONTAMINATION
Those home gardeners who tiave fruit trees growing in their gardens should not forget now that the crophas ripened that it is very important to.collect, without delay, every fruit that has fallen to. the ground and which lies beneath the trees. A few of these may be, genuine windfalls, but it will generally be found that most have been holed by the grub of the codlin moth, while many will be sfeabby with black spot .fungus or covered with the mould of brown rot. Both these latter are troubles that pass from the rotting fruit to the soil to rest during the winter and emerge tresh next spring to play havoc with the crops. They should, therefore/all be gathered up and burnt, whether they.be large or small, diseased or apparently healthy.
, Any mummified. fruits still remaining on the trees should also be'{fathered and burned to prevent spores dropping into the soil and contaminating next season's crop.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 28
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160FALLEN FRUIT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 28
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