You can make one branch of a tree more attractive to the insects than the rest of the branches by partly girdling it or permitting borers or cankers to damage the base of the branch.
Small cankers formed on the lower branches but did not make headway.
Cankers are produced on the smaller branches, but they usually are not noted until some of the affected ones wilt and die.
Persistent leaves and cankers along the trunk are readily seen, and more and better work can be accomplished than in the summer, except when the snow is very deep.
Blight cankers may be found upon them but they are less easily infected and suffer less than the more susceptible varieties.
It is acknowledged that generally white grubs are found in dying chestnut trees, and that in nearly all of the largecankers or lesions these grubs are present.
On this one tree six diseased limbs were removed, and sixteen cankers were cut out.
Cankers in the main trunk or on limbs should be gouged out.
Young cankers are yellow-brown in sharp contrast to the normal olive-green color of the bark.
The most conspicuous symptoms of the disease are the dying branches or crowns ("flags") above the girdling cankers, and the cankers themselves.
Cankers often girdle trees and wind breakage at the canker is common.
Stem cankers are either swollen or sunken and the sunken type may be grown over with bark.
Cankers bleeding resin, gum or other exudate at the tree base are common symptoms.
Small ovalcankers on stems or branches are the first symptoms of infection.
Such cankers are difficult to recognize, but close examination of the affected area may reveal tiny red bodies, which are the fruiting bodies of the Nectria fungi.
The wood behind cankers is characterized by a tough, spongy, white rot which extends as much as eight feet above and below the canker.
Cankers on leaders in the crown can result in death of two-thirds or more of the crown by mid-summer in a tree that appeared healthy in the spring.
Young stem cankers usually develop around openings such as wounds, lenticels, or leaf scars, appearing first as sunken, dark areas of the bark.
Older Nectria cankers are easily recognized in forest stands because of their typical "target" shape.
Strumella cankers are of two types: diffuse, and the more common "target-shaped.
Symptoms on infected trees frequently involve irregular cankers up to two feet in length.
Infected trees have cankers that appear as rough circular swellings on the bole.
The juice boiled with honey, and dropped into the corner of the eyes, clears the sight, by consuming any film or clouds beginning to dim it; it also consumes the cankers growing therein.
The distilled water is very effectual to wash sores or cankers in the nose, or any other part; if the powder of the root be applied thereunto afterwards.
The powder of the leaves strewed on cankers and running ulcers, wonderfully helps to heal them.
The same lotion also cleanses and heals all other foul ulcers and cankers elsewhere, if they be washed therewith.
And the juice, decoction, or powder of the dried herb is most singular to stay the malignity of spreading and fretting cankers and ulcers whatsoever, yea in the mouth and secret parts.
For further information on Cankers the student should read Marshall Ward, Timber and some of its Diseases, Chapter X.
Among the best known of these wound fungi which cause cankers are Dasyscypha Willkommii the peziza of Larch disease, Nectria ditissima and N.
Cankers due to insects are found on Apples, the cortex of which is punctured by the woolly Aphis (Schizoneura) while the twigs are young, and the wound is kept open by the insects nestling in crevices in the occlusion tissues.
Necrosis started by frost, and many small necrotic patches would eventually become Cankers if not healed up by the callus.
Peridermium Pini and Aecidium elatinum also cause cankers under certain conditions, as also does Gymnosporangium, but in these cases the fungi are more truly parasitic.
Species of Coccus, Lachnus, and Chermes also producecankers on forest trees.
Sprinkle the plants with this preparation, every morning and evening, by dipping in a brush and shedding it over them; and in a few days all the cankers will disappear.
Every fourth year these cankers become flies, when they deposit their eggs on the ground, and thus produce maggots.
Some good authorities recommend painting the cankers with lemon juice and putting a piece of alum in the drinking water, but we prefer the peroxide of hydrogen treatment.
Take a small sharp splinter of wood, such as sharpened match, and scrape thecankers off, doing this as gently as possible.
By honest toils a name have I acquired, Great and unequalled in the rolls of fame; And shall that name to infamy be doomed By one base act that mars and cankers all?
The bacteria are carried over the winter in cankerson the main limbs and bodies of the trees, oozing out in a sticky mass in the spring.
These cankers should be cut out with a sharp knife cutting well into the healthy bark and then washing the wound with corrosive sublimate, one part to one thousand of water.
These are the Tongues that set the world on fire, cankers of reputation, and, like that of Jonas his gourd, wither a good name in a night.
Inoculations in the callused margins of cankers showed usually only slight growth of the fungus after two months' time in the summer, or in some cases no growth at all.
It may even occur that the whole inner bark around the trunk is of a callused nature, without any open cankers showing at all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cankers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
