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5. Mention any peculiarities in the mode of cultivation, as 

 regards planting, pruning, and general management, as practised 

 in the district. 



6. Describe the diseases to which fruit-trees are subject in the 

 district; investigate their causes, and the causes of failure of 

 crops ; and state what remedies have- been employed, and the 

 success or failure attending them. 



§ B. The Physical Conditions of the Locality. 

 Under this head the information necessary to be obtained is— 



1. The geological structure of the district. 



2. The description and depth of the soil and subsoil. 



3. The surface : whether flat, undulating, or hilly, and whether 

 open or wooded. 



4. Latitude. 



5. Altitude above and distance from the sea. 



6. Average rainfall. 



7. Average temperature, 



8. Prevailing winds. 



The Local Committees are to meet from time to time, at such 

 hour and place as the Chairman, with the sanction of the Com- 

 mittee, may appoint ; but it is necessary that not less than one 

 meeting be held during each of the months of August, September, 

 October, and November. The days of meeting must precede by 

 a few days the advertised days of meeting of the General Com- 

 mittee, so that suflBcient time may intervene to enable the 

 Chairman of the Local Committee to transmit his reports to the 

 Secretary of the General Committee. 



•At such meetings the members should endeavour to collect as 

 many of the fruits grown in the district as are then in season, 

 along with the information respecting them alluded to in § A ; all 

 of which information, with specimens of the fruit, are to be 

 transmitted by the Chairman to the Secretary in time for the 

 meeting of the General Committee. 



The carriage of all packages, and all expenses attending them, 

 will be defrayed by the General Committee. 



a? once!'' They J he may be acted upon 



, of the district, be a 



