TOMATO DISEASE.
A erreat many tomato-growers about Sydney have been puzzled to notice fine healthy plants suddenly dying. Specimens sent to the Government experts have been examined and found to be infested with the deeping- disease of tomato, a fungoid disease known as Fusarlum lycopersici. This is very common in England, where it causes great losses to market gardeners. It is likely to spread, as if the plants are attacked when in frill fruit, as is often the case, the fruit may ripen and appear, even under the microscope, to be perfectly sound, yet the seeds of such tomatoes will produce diseased plants. As the fungus first attacks the roots and comes up the stem, where it discolours the tissue and causes sudden death of the plant, there is no remedy for the rclants when once attacked ; but they should be destroyed, and the soil treated with quicklime to destroy, the spores and keep the disease from spreading. — Exchange.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 8
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