Show TREES DESTROYED BY FUNGI no kind of fruit bearing trees enjoy immunity from parasitical vegetable growths BF B J M BALTIMORE in extremely warm countries it not infrequently occurs that lichens girdle fruit trees and kill them it Is usually the citrus orchards that suffer great greatest cst but no kind hind of fruit bearing trees enjoy entire immunity from these parasitical vegetable growths A large and healthy apple tree growing in an orchard in southern california was killed by lichens tills this is said to be the first case on record in this section of the country the killing of the tree Is supposed to have taken about three years A tree killed by fungi though hough the fungous growth was first observed not more than alian a year ago the fungi came up from the earth first covering about one third of the trunk runk they continued this growth to a leight height of about three feet IN when lien they completely surrounded the tree sen sand li ing ng large like suckers deep nto into the heart of the trunk even now when the tree and the lichens are both dead close inspection of t the broken cross sections shows alte lines whore once these rootlets rootless root lets burro ur Nied through the wood |