apple-scab

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noun A disease of the apple-tree which attacks both the leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus Fusicladium dendriticum. See Fusicladium and scab, 5.

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Pears are sometimes affected with a scab similar to the apple-scab, and this is combated by the same treatment -- three sprayings with Bordeaux.

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930
The most troublesome disease of the apple, especially in wet seasons, is the apple-scab, which disfigures the fruit, both in size and in appearance, as it causes blotches and distortions.

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930
The most troublesome disease of the apple is the apple-scab, which disfigures the fruit as well as lessens its size.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906
The spraying for apple-scab is with lime-sulfur to which may be added arsenate of lead.

The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906
Both these fruits, from one spur, will mature; but the smaller one will be blemished, for the apple-scab fungus has established itself on the crown and about the calyx.

The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906
On the leaves are spots or lesions, -- injured or "diseased" -- infected with the apple-scab fungus.

The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906
Leaves and fruits injured by fungi, chiefly apple-scab.]

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906