fungus-spotted

Updated: May 8, 2025

Sometimes it can be conquered by snipping the infected leaves, but if it seizes an entire bed, the necessary evil of spraying with Bordeaux mixture must be resorted to, as in the case of fungus-spotted hollyhocks. Thrip, the little transparent, whitish fly, will sometimes bother border carnations in the same way as it does roses.

Mabel Osgood Wright - The Garden, You, and I

The horse, nipping at scant shoots of bunch-grass and the blue-flowered patches of wild peas, gravitated toward the old trail to the Blue and, once upon it, turned toward home. Chance, refreshing his memory of the old trail, ran ahead, pausing at this fallen log and that fungus-spotted stump to investigate squirrel-holes with much sniffing and circling of the immediate territory.

Henry Herbert Knibbs - Sundown Slim