.April 3, 1920.] Ayricultural Gazette of N.S.W, 279 



ifche box in rows, fruit side down; then fill the box, nail on the bottom, and 

 ■either turn over and mark the faced side as top, or stencil the case so that 



the properly-faced side will be opened, showing the cherries neatly rowed 



and presenting a very attractive appearance. 



Diseases of the Cherry. 



Cherry Tree Borer (Cryptophaga unipunctata, Don). — When a tree is found 

 to be attacked by these grubs, remove all the felted web, and insert a bit of 

 copper- wire into the burrow so as to injure the grub ; if this cannot be managed, 

 squirt a little kerosene oil into the hole and then plug it up. 8ome growers 

 have found that dipping a wooden plu^ in kerosene and then driving it into 

 ■the hole kills the grub. 



San Jose Scale. — For this, spray (after the fruit is harvested) with resin, 

 ^3oda and fish oil in the summer, and lime-sulphur solution in the winter. 



Rutherglen Bug. — ^As this bug attacks the ripe fruit, we have been unable 

 to find anything to keep the trees free from it without at the same time 

 •damaging the fruit. 



Pear Slug. — Spray with arsenate of lead (2 lb. to 50 gallons of water). 

 Where the slug is found to be very destructive to the foliage, it is advisable 

 T,o disturb the soil round the trunks of the trees, or apply lime so as to destroy 

 the cocoons in the ground. 



Brown Rot. — For brown rot spray with Bordeaux mixture or lime-sulphur 

 { winter strength) when the buds are swelling, and again with Bordeaux mixture 

 '{summer strength) when the fruit has set. 



Shot-Jwle Fungus. — This disease attacks the leaves, showing first as brown 

 dots and later as small, round, dry patches, which fall out leaving a round 

 liole. Spraying with Bordeaux mixture or lime-sulphur in the ^^ inter is 

 recommended. 



Gumming. — Gumming may result from either excess of, or want of, water 

 in the soil; also from intense heat or heavy pruning. It is therefore not in 

 itself considered a disease, but rather an indication of conditions unfavourable 

 ;to the thrifty growth of the tree. The presence of gum is usually the beginning 

 of the end, but some check may be given by opening the bark in the spring, 

 inserting the blade of the knife lightly under it and making the incision 

 from the base to where the first limbs branch out. 



■'' Will you kindly forward me your book on the cultivation of maize. As 

 I go about I see better crops than I can raise and I am anxious to discover the 



reason." 



The foregoing reached the Department in a recent mail — surely the spirit 

 <of the New Agriculture ! 



