Part 2 — Notes to Chapter XII.
Reading edition
The reader will find a summary of such fungi as are here concerned in Massee, A Text-Book of Plant Diseases, 1899, or Prillieux, Maladies des Plantes Agricoles.
For further details the student should consult the works of Frank and Sorauer referred to in the notes to Chapter IX., and Tubeuf, The Diseases of Plants, Engl. ed. 1897, pp. 104-539.
For experiments on the effects of grass on orchard trees, see Report of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, 1900, p. 160.
For the further study of weeds, the interesting bulletins of the Kansas State Agricultural College, 1895-1898, will show the reader what may be done in the matter of classifying them according to their biological peculiarities.
In regard to insects, the reader will find the following list embraces the subject: Somerville, Farm and Garden Insects, 1897; Theobald, Insect Life, 1896; Ormerod, Manual of Injurious Insects, 1890, and Handbook of Insects Injurious to Orchards, etc., 1898.
The admirable series of publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the editorship of Riley and Howard, and entitled Insect Life, 1888-1895, also abounds in information.
Further, Taschenberg's Praktische Insektenkunde, 1879-1880, and Judeich and Nietsche, Lehrbuch der Mitteleurop. Forst. Insektenkunde, 1889.
For an elementary introduction to the study of fungus diseases, see Marshall Ward, Diseases of Plants, Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London.