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VIII. THERE is a large and important class of diseases of standing timber which start from the cortex and cambium so obviously that foresters and horticulturists, struck with the external symptoms, almost invariably term them “diseases of the bark”; and since most of them lead to the production of malformations and excrescences, often with outflowing of resinous and other fluids, a sort of rough superficial analogy to certain animal diseases has been supposed, and such terms as “canker,” “cancer,” and so forth, have been applied to them.
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WARD, H. Timber, and Some of its Diseases 1 . Nature 38, 127–130 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038127b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/038127b0