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FW: Weekly NMPRO e-mail -- 3/3/98



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> From: 	David Morgan[SMTP:DMorgan@bsipublishing.com]
> Sent: 	Monday, March 02, 1998 2:09 PM
> To: 	NM01
> Subject: 	Weekly NMPRO e-mail -- 3/3/98
> 
> Weekly NMPRO e-mail
> -- Your update on what's happening in the nursery industry.
> 3/3/98
> Compiled by David L. Morgan, Editor
> 
> * Another bad rap for El Nino. Texas A&M extension plant pathologist 
> Janell Stevens Johnk predicts the wave of above-normal rainfall may 
> cause an increase in diseases: actinopelte leaf spot of oak; peach
> leaf 
> curl; oak leaf blister; anthracnose of elm, ash, oak and sycamore; tar
> 
> spot of oak; and entomosporium leaf spot of photinia and Indian 
> hawthorn.
> 
> * Meanwhile, Texas A&M pathologists see no end to the incidence of oak
> 
> wilt, now considered epidemic in Texas. They say there are 20-30 
> infection sites in Dallas and Collin counties in North Texas and at 
> least 200 in neighboring Tarrant County. The only approved treatment
> is 
> injection of the fungicide Alamo, which is not effective in trees with
> 
> advanced stages of infection. The vascular disease is spread by
> insects 
> and root grafts; there is no evidence of spread by shipped trees.
> Major 
> hosts are live oaks and the Texas red or Spanish oaks.
> 
<snip>

> Catch spring fever with beautiful, blooming azaleas featured this week
> 
> on Thursday's Plant. The blossoms open March 5 on the Green Beam. 
> http://www.greenbeam.com
> 
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