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Ac/ricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 



[April 3, 1920. 



lines. These develop into brown, rusty looking disfigurements that some- 

 times make the fruit almost unsaleable, though it is not damaged at all 

 internally. Young trees which have been eaten badly never make much 



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Foliage of Apple Tree damaged by Dicky Rice {Prosayleus phytolymw). 



•growth, and will often stand in the nursery for two years without making more 

 "than a foot of young wood. This used to puzzle us at one time, but now 

 that we know that the larvae are damaging the roots we are better able to 



