Cured Canker
In the same orchards a patent cure for canker, that most prevalent of apple diseases, has been tried recently. I in- spected closely a number of cankers both broad and deep that had been treated, and the growth of young and healthy bark over the wound was very apparent. It looks as if a remedy had indeed been found. A curious influence of canker, which may, of course, utterly destroy a bough, is that it frequently persuades a bough to fruit heavily. In my own orchard I had a Cox that one year fruited only on the cankered bough. This fact has led some growers to cut out the bark in the pattern of a canker wound, instead of ring-barking in the more normal way. Nevertheless, canker is one of the worst evils, especially to some of the best varieties ; and a sovereign cure would be of inestimable value to all fruit-growers.
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