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been appointed in Tasmania to investigate and report. 

 (The report, if made, has not reached us.) 



For comparison, we give a written statement by Joseph 

 Cronley, Esq., of Lord street, Sandy Bay, as reported to 

 Commission (taken from the " Melbourne Australasian," 

 July 1 2th, 1879), allowance to be made as to dates for 

 difference of seasons in Australia and California : 



"I first observed affected apples in my garden early in 

 January. I took the affected ones off and examined them 

 minutely. At this time there was on some of the affected 

 apples a red spot, with a brown speck in the center, which 

 I supposed to be the egg ; at this stage I could not find 

 any grub. Next stage, a small hole covered with excre- 

 ment, and I found the grub, but very small, about one- 

 eighth of an inch under the surface of the apple. I found 

 some near the core of the apple, and able to crawl about 

 lively when taken out of the apple. If not taken out, 

 the grub will eat its way into the core of the apple, and, 

 in most cases, will eat the pips ; then it will bore its way 

 on through the side, or along the core through the eye of 

 the apple. I am told that they weave a web by which 

 they descend from the apple to the ground ; I have not 

 seen them doing so, but I have found the web attached 

 to the apple and floating in the air. The apples so 

 pierced by the grub generally fall to the ground ; they are 

 sure to do this if the core is eaten away, and very often 

 before the grub leaves the apple. The moth is a night 

 moth. I have seen them in an empty room in which there 

 were apples the previous year, and in which empty cases 

 remained, showing clearly that the grubs will live and 

 come to maturity in any sheltered place. Then the moth 

 does its work of destruction by night. I have seen the 

 egg when recently laid, and have marked it by sticking a 

 gooseberry thorn in the apple near the egg, and watched 

 it until I cut the grub out full grown. I have not seen 

 any recent traces of the moth after about the middle of 



