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Occasionally, they would take to the air to kill people with their knifelike talons and blight the crops with poisonous excrement.
In reality organic potato producers frequently have to remove potato haulms early because of foliage blight.
Trees appear to resist bacterial canker but are very susceptible to fire blight.
Many factors have been blamed for the barren spell, the most obvious being the regional politics that blight their domestic game.
Note that blight is not restricted to stagnant or declining regions and cities.
The old, washed-out white tents began to dot the promenade like the annoying blight on my ixora plants.
That would allow the city to remove blight from the docket of the 36th District Court.
The residents are quite rightly convinced it will blight the area and lead to increased crime and a downward spiral of house prices.
In the corn blight case, susceptibility to blight is conditioned by the mitochondrial genome.
They are a blight on many city centres and disfigure urban life to an intolerable degree.
Poseidon is an old-fashioned prudent God that will punish any naughty humans with a blight of bothersome crabs in their nether regions.
But years of heavy rains in the area following the formation of the co-op caused the spread of a plant blight known as scab.
A leafy neighbourhood of detached and semi-detached homes much removed from the urban blight of Scottish cities.
Once the strands unite, the wild blight fungus contracts the disease and its killing power wanes.
Unlike bacterial blight, warm temperatures do not limit development of bacterial pustule.
Disease problems can include powdery mildew, Botrytis blight, aster yellows, leaf spots, viruses and foliar nematodes.
Glasgow's high-rise social housing had become synonymous with urban blight and social deprivation.
Instead, it declined precipitously, becoming by the 1990s one of the country's poorest cities and a national symbol of urban blight.
The spray-painted art was considered an urban blight by New York officials, who persecuted the young artists who created it.
On a street pocked with dark storefronts, and in a neighborhood with its share of urban blight, the Beachland's neon sign is a beacon.
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He begins by calling their attention to the great probability of a famine in Ireland consequent upon the potato blight.
I think you will have more loss from sunscald and root rot than you will from blight.
The filbert blight belongs with the diseases of the European grape and sweet cherry.
This chestnut blight belongs to the microbe group and the microbe is the great enemy of mankind.
The idea that the powers of growth had successfully combated those of blight may have been ritually represented.
I have heard it was brought in from some point but I do not know whether it was identified exactly as the chestnut blight.
This is what happened not long since to the potato crop and potato prices, when potatoes were affected by the potato blight.
You can see dead chestnut trees up there showing that the blight is as bad as Dr. Van Fleet says.
They moved on, little dreaming of the ruin and blight they had left behind them.
Late Blight is the same fungus as the late blight of potatoes, affecting both foliage and fruit.
Burning suns, a weedy garden and potato blight may dismay the old, but such things do not fret the young mind.
We have found a few small lesions of chestnut blight which were removed by pruning and then painted with pine tar.
Filbert blight was responsible for much of this loss, but so also were destructively low temperatures.
But then how often overcast by the clouds of care, how often dusked by the blight of misery and misfortune!
Negative Eugenics is as imperative a necessity as the protection of our coasts from invasion or the destruction of potato blight.
It is a noticeable fact, and one to be deplored, that even the potato blight was made a party question in Ireland.
The manner in which he dealt with the potato blight, and consequent Irish Famine, is indefensible.
This opinion as to fogs preceding or accompanying the potato blight was corroborated from various parts of the United Kingdom.
Out in the vegetable area there were first cutworms and then drought and potato blight to be contended with.
Blights are all over, the pear blight, the apple blight, the lettuce blight.
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