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Show - m A Garden Pest Gallworm Attacks Southern Vegetable Vege-table and Flower Gardens. May Be Starved Out Kitchen and truck gardens in various vari-ous parts of tho South aro being damaged soverely by roo,t knot, also known as rootgall and blgroot, tho causo of which Is a microscopic animal ani-mal which nt ono stngo Is wormllko nnd for this reason has been called an eel worm. Tho animal bolongs to tho class called nematodes, and this particular and destructive member of tho family, bocauso It produces galls, Is often called tho gallworm. Tho destructive de-structive effect of this nematode on truck gardens and certain field crops has clearly been established and bocauso bo-causo ot Its habits in gardens of largo slzo It was to bo expected that onco it got Into kitchen gardens and even certain flower bods it would also causo their plants to mako very poor growth stunting them, reducing tho yield or ovon killing them prematuro-ly. prematuro-ly. Whero tho Infection is very bad tho roots nro found to bo masses of swollen abortions covered with knots and scarcely recognizable, as roots. Numerous letters from homo gard-oners gard-oners In different sections of tho South havo roportcd a. mysterious datnago to certain vegetables and flowers which nro known to bo especially espe-cially suscoptlblo to this paraslto that lives In soil nnd attacks practically nil truck vegetables, cultivated berries, ber-ries, certain kinds ot lawn grass, and certain treos, ns well as many flold crops of tho South. Many of tho writers sent samples of plants that had been destroyed, nnd examination showed very clearly that thoy had been nttacked by this gallworm. Ot tho bush fruits tho raspberries aro seriously affected, nnd of other fruits tho cherry, fig, peach, mulberry, mulber-ry, and Old World grapovlno nro very suscoptlblo to attack. Of lawn plnnts, clovor Is especially suscoptlblo and Kentucky bluo grass Is moro or less subject to Injury. Hope, frequently raised for chickens, Is among tho bus-ceptlblo bus-ceptlblo plants. |