Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pear-blight (which see, underblight ). - noun See
pear-blight , under blight. - noun A disease of flax and hops.
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Examples
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And on the Geneva farm there are Gala apple trees with a gene inserted for fire-blight resistance; they could be ready for growers by 2005.
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The _fire-blight_, or _brulure_ in pear-trees can be stopped by cutting off all the blighted branches.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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The _fire-blight_, or _brûlure_, in pear trees, can be stopped, by cutting off all the blighted branches.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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The hired man skins the tree with the harrow; fire runs through the dry grass; hard winters shatter the vitality, and parts of the tree die; borers enter; rabbits and mice gnaw the bark in winter; loads of fruit and burdens of ice crush the tree; wind storms play mischief; bad pruning leaves long stubs, and rot develops; cankers produce dead ragged wounds; fire-blight destroys the tissue; a poorly formed tree with bad crotches splits easily; grafts fail to take, and long dead ends are left; the tree is injured by pickers; vandals wreak their havoc.
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