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Definition of Collar blight
1. Noun. A disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collar Blight
Literary usage of Collar blight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"... is a form of fire- blight known as collar-blight, collar-rot, or crown-rot.
In many cases this type of trouble is a form of winter-injury. Symptoms. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"collar blight A form of pear blight attacking the apple at the thickened portion
of the tree just above and below the ground line. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"An Improved Method of Making Separation Cultures," by AF Blakeslee. ' ' Collar-blight
of Apple Trees in Pennsylvania, ' ' by CR Orton and JF Adams. ..."
4. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1917)
"In Pennsylvania, a collar blight of apple trees due to the same cause is reported
as serious. The organism has been found capable of retaining its vitality ..."
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