THE KANSAS APRICOT. Ill 



BROWN APRICOT SCALE. 



At a recent meeting of the horticultural society of Sonoma county, 

 California, a member called attention to the fact that shippers and 

 commission men had decided not to handle any more infested fresh 

 fruit, and referred to the necessity for spraying and discouraging joar- 

 asites. Speaking of the brown apricot scale, he said very emphatic- 

 ally that it could easily have been checked when first noticed here 

 five years ago, but now it would take a great deal of united and well- 

 sustained work to prevent it from becoming a greater nuisance. 

 Another member mentioned the difficulty of getting men to sjoray even 

 when the farmers' homes contained papers and horticultural rejjorts 

 that gave the formulse of the best sprays and full directions for their 

 use. The average fruit-grower, said the gentleman, was too lazy or 

 indifferent to perform the manual labor necessary to rid his orchard 

 of the pests that not only cut down his chance for a profit, but his 

 neighbors' as well. 



AUSTRALIAN APRICOTS. 



Large crops of apricots have been gathered by orchardists this 

 season in this district, says the Northern Argus. Australia. The 

 sample has been a uniformly good one, and markets have been easily 

 obtained. Amongst the largest and best of the sort we have seen is 

 a fine sample grown by Mr. C. H. Beaumont, of Penwortham. The 

 fruit is of unusually large size, as will be seen from the fact that 

 some of the apricots weighed five ounces and measured eight inches 

 around. Any nine weighed two pounds, while fifty apricots taken 

 from one case weighed twelve pounds. Mr. Beaumont has 106 trees 

 six years old, from which was picked nearly 7000 jjounds of fruit. 



SOME KANSAS EXPERIENCE. 



The following individual reports from Kansas fruit-growers con- 

 vey lots of good ideas on apricot culture : 



Ebert Simon, Welda, Anderson county. — I have one apricot tree in bear- 

 ing, which is prolific every other year ; the frost does not catch it in the spring : 

 the fruit is in demand at home for canning and preserving. 



C A. Blackmore, Sharon, Barber county. — Moorpark did the best with 

 me last season ; it bore a full crop of very large fruit. Early Golden and Common 

 apricot bore some. Alexis, Alexander, J. L. Budd, Shensi and Superb are too 

 young to bear with me. In planting the foregoing trees I set them in red soil, 



