April 2, 1908.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S. W. 347 



grow ; and also bear in mind that the grower who can supply a line of ten 

 thousand cases of any such variety can easily find a buyer for same. Up to 

 the present the trouble has been that exporters could get only a few hundred 

 cases of a kind, and not in siitKciently large quantities to make it worth their 

 \\hile to exploit foreign markets. There is also a good demand for suitable 

 varieties of good carrying grapes for export, and from information which I 

 gathered while in the western part of the United States and Canada, a good 

 market could be found there for considerable fruit during April, May, and 

 June. Those who intend planting out new orchards should get the land 

 cleared and subsoiled as soon as possible, and trees secured. Tn planting 

 apple-trees, see that they are all worked on blight-proof stocks, as trees worked 

 on such stocks can be easily kept free of the Woolly aphis. 



When apples and pears are being pulled it is found necessary, when eaidy 

 shipments are being exported, to go over the trees two or three times, taking 

 only such specimens during each picking as will measure 2| inches or more 

 in diameter, and lea\'ing the smaller immatured or uncoloured fruits to 

 remain on the tree until they are in a fit condition for picking. 



Valencia Late Orange budded on Seville orange stock. 

 Not 3 the thick rmd. Grown by Mr. L. \\'. Nic\iolsou, The Oaks, Camden. 



