nunc consumit edax segetem rubigo maligni aris ex vitio, nunc culpam vere tepenti post zephyros gelidi glacies aquilonis inurit ambustumque caput culmi fuligine tinguit; seminis aut teneri turgens dum germinat herba, continuis nimiisque perit constricta pruinis nec potis est tenuem telluri adfigere fibram; mox eiecta solo glacie sidente superfit nudaque subducto radix avellitur arvo.
Sometimes wasting rust consumes the crop, arising from a taint and malignity in the air; sometimes in a warm spring after the west winds have blown, an icy blast from the cold north burns a fault into the corn, staining the blighted head of the stalk soot-black; or while the blade is sprouting and swelling from the tender seed it is shrivelled and killed by uninterrupted hard frosts; it cannot fix its slender tissue in the earth, and then as the frost goes deeper it is forced out of the ground and lies above it, the bare root torn away with no soil to cover it.
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