This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The strawberry fungus, Ramularia fragaria, which causes the misnamed "sun-scald" on strawberry leaves, and eventually causes varieties to " run out," is not nearly as bad in the vicinity of Philadelphia as usual. The cool moist season is unfavorable to its development. In one respect "sun-scald" comes near to a relationship to the disease though a fungus is the actual agent, for it is the heat and drouth of a climate or exposure for which the strawberry was not intended, that first enervates it, and gives the fungus a chance to grow. Fungi will, we are convinced, attack the healthiest vegetation at times; at other, low vital power encourages fungus attacks, and thus it is with the strawberry and other Northern fruits in more Southern climes.
 
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